Schedule of press-briefings in Ukraine Crisis Media Center for February 26, 2016

09-00 Topic: “Ministry of Defense of Ukraine: updates on the activities over the past week”
Col. Viktoria Kushnir, Ministry of Defense of Ukraine spokesperson

09-10 Topic: “Dynamics of hostilities in ATO zone in the last 3 days”
Major Sergiy Zhmyrko, ATO spokesman (via Skype)

9-15 Topic: “Results of the fourth Medical mission of Canadian doctors to Ukraine and future projects”
Victor Hetmanczuk, President of the Canada Ukraine Foundation
Dr. Oleh Antonyshyn, Head of the Adult Craniofacial Program at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Professor of Plastic Surgery at the University of Toronto
Ihor Fedirko, Medical Service, director of the Craniofacial Surgery and Dentistry Clinic at the Ministry of Defence Main Clinical Military Hospital
Krystina Waler, director of humanitarian initiatives, Ukraine Canada Foundation

Internationa Forum “Crimea is Ukraine. Annexed peninsula between the past and the future”

First panel discussion:
10-30 Topic: “Informational reintegration of Crimea: dialog in the state of annexation”
Vitaliy Portnykov, journalist, publicist, observer of the “Radio Liberty”
Pavlo Kazarin, journalist, TV host
Yevhen Magda, political expert, journalist
Karl Volokh, political observer
Vakhtang Kipiani, journalist, chief editor of the “Vladometr” project and of the “Istorychna Pravda”
Eider Muzhdabayev, journalist, TV host, deputy general director at the TV channel «ATR»
Sergiy Kostynskyi, member of the National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine
Moderator: Sevgil Musaeva-Borovik, chief editor at the online media outlet “Ukrainska pravda” [Ukrainian Truth]

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12-30 Col. Andriy Lysenko, Presidential Administration spokesperson on ATO related issues

Second panel discussion
13-00 Topic: “February 26th. Crimea resitance: Crimean Tatars fight for the Motherland”
Mustafa Dzhemilev, MP, Commissioner of the President of Ukraine for the Affairs of Crimean Tatars
Refat Chubarov, Head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, MP
Oliver Loode, Vice-President of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Georgiy Logvynskyi, MP
Mykola Kniazhytskyi, MP
Natalia Belitser, expert, Pylyp Orlyk
Bohdan Yaremenko, diplomate, chairman of the charitable foundation “Maidan of Foreign Affairs”
Moderator: Emine Dzheppar, advisor to the Minister of information policy on Crimea

15-30 Performance: “February 26 case” – a play on the court proceedings on Akhmet Chiygoz case
Stage director: Galina Dzhykaieva, PostPlayTheatre

16-45 Topic: “Presentation of the film “Crimea: how it happened”: history of creation. Joint project of the “Babylon 13” and Ukraine Crisis Media Center
Kostyantyn Kliatskin, film director
Volodymyr Usyk, operator
Pavlo Lypa, sound engineer
Oleksandra Bratyschenko, producer
Sergiy Malyarchuk, producer, author of the idea
Valentyna Okhlopkova, volunteer