Schedule of press briefings in Ukraine Crisis Media Center for November 9, 2015

10-00 Topic: “Ukraine’s strategy to improve its position in rating ‘Doing Business’ and tactics of its implementation”
Pavlo Petrenko, Minister of Justice of Ukraine
Igor Alekseev, MP (“Narodniy Front” faction)
Ruslan Sydorovych, MP (“Samopomich” faction)
Victoriaya Ptashnyk, MP (“Samopomich” faction)
Oksana Prodan, MP (“Petro Poroshenko Bloc”)
Andriy Ierashov, NGO “Easy Business” expert
Tetyana Palamarchuk, NGO “Easy Business” expertя
Sergiy Petrov, NGO “Easy Business” expert

12-00 Topic: “Initiative supported by the National Guard of Ukraine: “Students of Kyiv region interact with students of Donbass”
Col Oleksandr Chorniy, head of HR department at the National Guard of Ukraine

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

13-00 Topic: “Science sphere reform: how to reach a consensus?”
Maksym Strikha, Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine
Oleksiy Skrypnyk, MP, (“Samopomich” faction), Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada’s Committee on Science and Education
Nataliya Shulga, chief expert at the Reanimation package of reform “Science.Technology.Innovations”

14-00 Topic: “Progress of energy reform”
Volodymyr Demchyshyn, Minister of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine

15-30 Topic: “Is Crimean political prisoner Hennadiy Afanasyev in danger: evaluation of lawyer Oleksandr Popkov”
Oleksandr Popkov, Hennadiy Afanasyev lawyer
Olga Afanasyeva, Hennadiy Afanasyev’s mother
Maksym Butkevych, representative of the Committee of Solidarity with the Crimean political prisoners

16-00 Topic: “The families of Heavenly Hundred heroes demand justice: requesting Verkhovna Rada to amend the Law of Ukraine on judiciary”
Yevgen Nyschuk, Ukrainian theater and cinema actor, former Minister of Culture of Ukraine (February – December 2014)
Volodymyr Bondarchuk,  NGO “Heavenly Hundred heroes family”