Press conference entitled 'Kherson region under occupation. Governance, propaganda, repression'

Organizers: Ukrinform (Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security), Center for Middle East Studies.

Participants: Ihor Solovey - Head of the Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security; Serhiy Danilov - Deputy Director of the Center for Middle East Studies; Olexandr Yakovlev - Mayor of Skadovsk; Oksana Glebushkina - Executive Director of the New Generation Shopping Center (Kherson); Ivan Antipenko - journalist, media expert (Kherson); Petro Kobernyk - journalist of the Center for Journalistic Investigations, curator of the IRS Kherson Media Center (Kherson); Oleh Baturyn - journalist (Kakhovka); Olha Zhukova - public activist, expert (Kherson).

Topics for discussion:

● Local self-government under occupation. The dilemmas between collaboration and the need to meet the needs of communities

● Information space of Kherson region. Media products and their messages.

● Repression and resistance in the Kherson region. The limits of the possible, the scale of the phenomena.

The format of the event is offline (Hall 2).

Journalists will be able to ask questions offline (Hall 2).

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

Accreditation of media representatives: pressa@mil.gov.ua or 067 43 071 81

Accreditation will last until 11:30 on May 23, to confirm the name, surname, title of the publication.

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

Ukrinform address: Kyiv, street Bohdan Khmelnytsky, 8/16

Use of any materials from the official Ukrinform YouTube channel is possible only if the copyright established by the channel is respected. Demonstrating the video during the live broadcast, it is necessary to refer to the author - Ukrinform - to show its name on the screen and say it out loud.