In her first interview about the incident, Karolina Ashion says a racist encounter with her former boss, now Ukraine’s Minister of Culture, made it “impossible” to stay at her job.
The Daily Beast: Black TV host was deemed ‘ratings risk’ by top Ukrainian politician
Ukrainian television presenter and producer Karolina Ashion says that her former boss - then the director of Ukraine’s 1+1 media conglomerate and current Minister of Culture Alexander Tkachenko - allegedly told her that her appearance on a popular morning show would hurt the network’s ratings.
