
Evgenia Markov was appointed the new director of Roskino, Kommersant reports . She replaced Ekaterina Mcturidze in this post.
The candidacy of Markovo in the fall of 2019 was proposed to consider the largest film producers. They asked the head of the Federal Property Management Agency Vadim Yakovenko to support their ideas on the reform of Roskino: to retract him to the Ministry of Culture and include new participants in the board of directors.
The letter was signed by Fedor Bondarchuk, Sergey Selvanov, Eduard Iloyan, Vadim Vereshchagin and other producers. After that, several representatives of the industry entered the board of directors of the company, and Ekaterina Mituridze came out of it.
On December 26, Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky said that Roskino General Ekaterina Mituridze will resign.
Evgenia Markov has recently been responsible for the connection with the film industry in the company Expocontent, which advises Russian film producers and series on international promotion issues.