UA: Pershyi removes religious programmes from air
The programme is dedicated to five-minute messages of clergymen of different faiths on topical issues.
The author of the programme, Larisa Poberezhnik, shared information that the new management closed the project as church themes should not be present on Public Television.
In addition, she said that during the discussion of projects that would be broadcast in the new season, she was asked about how her attidude to same-sex "marriages", to which the woman replied that it is a sin. In response, Lukian Galkin, the executive producer of the channel, said that European values are "same-sex marriages", and to whoever thinks differently "we will arrange such an appraisal that they cannot stand, and we will dismiss them," Larisa Poberezhnik quoted the producer.
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