Schedule of press briefings in Ukraine Crisis Media Center for December 15, 2015

9-00 Topic: “Ministry of Defense of Ukraine: updates on the activities over the past week”
Lt. Dmytro Hutsyliak, Ministry of Defense of Ukraine spokesperson

09-10 Topic: “Dynamics of hostilities in ATO zone in the last 4 days”
Major Anton Myronovych, ATO spokesman (via Skype)

10-00 Topic:  “Forget about the Hague: Ukraine delays Rome Statute ratification”
Margareta Cederfelt, MP, Sweden (Moderate Party), treasurer at the “Parliamentarians for Global Action” (PGA)
Petra Bayr, MP, Austria, PGA member
Mark Pritchard, MP, the United Kingdom, member of PGA Council
Iryna Dumych, advocate, member of the Center for Civil Freedoms and “Advocacy Agenda” platform

11-00 Topic:  “The start of the National Agency for Corruption Prevention is under threat”
Volodymyr Syschenko, member of the election commission for National Agency for Corruption Prevention
Viktor Chumak, MP, Poroshenko Bloc faction, elected as co-director of the National Agency for Corruption Prevention
Serhiy Leschenko, MP, Poroshenko Bloc faction

12-00 Topic:  “The USA will provide a grant to Ukrainian students for education in top-50 American business-schools”
Geoffrey Pyatt, Ambassador of the United States of America in Ukraine
Jaroslawa Zelinsky Johnson, President and Chief Executive Officer, Western NIS Enterprise Fund (WNISEF)
Roman Tychkivskyi, director of WNІSEF program for economic leadership

12-30 Col. Oleksandr Motuzyanyk, Presidential Administration spokesperson on ATO related issues

13-00 Topic: “Winter: how charity organizations help the most vulnerable groups on the Ukraine-controlled areas of Luhansk and Donetsk regions”. UCMC pilot project “Spokesperson of peaceful life”
Oksana Ponomaryova, director of Ukrainian Charity Foundation “RESpublica” (via Skype)
Natalia Malchenko, director of Charity Foundation “For the Future of Ukraine” (via Skype)

13-30 Discussion on topic: The most complicated budget in Ukraine’s history”
Mariya Repko, Deputy Director of the Center for Economic Strategy
Pavlo Kukhta, advisor at the Center for Economic Strategy
Olena Bilan, chief economist at Dragon Capital” investment company
Dmytro Boyarchiuk, executive director at CASE Ukraine”