Schedule of press-briefings in Ukraine Crisis Media Center for October 21, 2016

10-00 Topic: “Ministry of Defense of Ukraine: updates on the activities over the past 3 days”
Lt. Oleksiy Chernobay, Ministry of Defense of Ukraine spokesperson

12-30 Col. Andriy Lysenko, Ministry of Defense spokesperson on ATO related issues

15-30 Topic: “General updates on OSCE SMM activity and the security situation in Ukraine”
Alexander Hug, First Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine

17-30 Topic: “Opening of the exhibition “Italian brands: history and evolution”
H.E. Davide La Cecilia, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Italy in Ukraine
Anna Pastore, Director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Ukraine
Carlo Ferrari, Director of the Italian Trade Agency in Ukraine
Leonid Maruschak, curator of Ukraine Crisis Media Center Art Initiative

Day of Heating & Energy Consumers Rights in UCMC

9-00 Topic: “Are consumers voices heard in the course of reforms period?”
Oleksandr Narbut, KERI President
Oleksiy Ryabchyn, MP, head of the Subcommittee on Energy Saving and Energy Efficiency, Parliamentary Committee on  on Fuel and Energy Complex, Nuclear Policy and Nuclear Safety
Miriam Kosmel, project director for Ukraine and Belarus of Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom
Svitlana Golikova, member of KERI Strategic Council
Moderator: Roman Vybranovskyy, director of UCMC Strategic Communications Project

10-20 Topic: “European experience in Ukrianian realities” 
Jose Manuel Hernandez, First Secretary of the European Commission delegation to Ukraine, “Competition Policy and Energy Markets”
Martinez Jürgen, ombudsman of Schlichtungsstelle Energie, Germany
Kipp Marine Cornelis, Secretary General at NEON – National Energy Ombudsmen Network (via Skype)
Moderator: Mykhailo Bno-Airiyan, ex-head of Strategic Planning and European Integration Department, Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine

11-20 Igor Gorodyskyi, head of the Department on Electric Energy Retail Maket,  National Commission for state regulation in the energy and utilities
Iryna Osovyk, deputy head of the Department on Electric Energy Retail Maket,  National Commission for state regulation in the energy and utilities
Oleksandr Fomenko, general director of “Kyivenergo” energy distributing company
Dmytro Novytskyi, general director of “Kyivvodokanal” PLC (water supplying company)
Oleg Struk, senior engineer, PJSC “Kyivgas”
Moderator: Ivan Plachkov, head of  “Kyivenergo” Supervisory Council, ex-Minister of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine

13-20 Topic: “Creating system of consumer protection: on the way to consensus” 
Oleksiy Kucherenko, NGO “Association of Residential Property Owners of Ukraine”, head of the Board, ex-Minister of Housing and Communal Services of Ukraine
Taras Kachka, deputy executive director, International Renaissance Foundation
Andriy Gerus, founder of Energy Consumers Association, ex-member of the National Commission for state regulation in the energy and utilities
Tetyana Boyko, civil network “OPORA” coordinator for housing, communal services and energy programs
Svitlana Golikova, member of KERI Strategic Council
Moderator: Roman Vybranovskyy, director of UCMC Strategic Communications Project