Briefing on overcoming consequences of Russification and totalitarianism

On November 2, at 1:00 p.m., there will be a briefing of members of the Expert Council of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy on overcoming the consequences of Russification and totalitarianism.

Organizers: Media center Ukraine — Ukrinform.

Speaker: Oleksandr Tkachenko - Chairman of the Expert Council, Minister of Culture and Information Policy; Kostyantyn Doroshenko – member of the Expert Council, art critic and curator, publicist; Nataliya Kryvda - member of the Expert Council, doctor of philosophy, professor of Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University; Oles Donii is a member of the Expert Council, ideologue, head of the public organization "Center for Research of Political Values".

Current topics:

  • clarification of the decision of the Expert Council regarding the transfer of certain categories of monuments and monuments related to Russian and Soviet imperial history;
  • clarification of the decision of the Expert Council regarding the renaming of the most common "Russian" urban names;
  • clarification of the recommendations of the Expert Council on overcoming the anti-Ukrainian influence of Russian civilizational myths, the Russian imperial and Soviet totalitarian heritage in the public space of populated areas of Ukraine; etc

The format of the event is offline (Hall 1).

Journalists will be able to ask questions offline (Hall 1) and in the chat of the YouTube broadcast.

Journalists are requested to arrive half an hour before the event.

Accreditation of media representatives will be carried out before the event at the agency.

The event will be broadcast on Ukrinform's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/UkrinformTV

Address of Ukrinform: Kyiv, str. Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, 8/16.

The use of any materials from the official Ukrinform YouTube channel is possible only under the condition of observing the copyright established by the channel. When showing the clip during the live broadcast, it is necessary to refer to the author - Ukrinform - show its name on the screen and say it out loud.