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

10-00 Topic: “Ministry of Defense of Ukraine: updates on the activities over the past 4 days”
Lt. Col. Oleksiy Chernobai, Ministry of Defense of Ukraine spokesperson

10-30 Topic: «Seeking alternatives for repressive drug policy”
Oleg Dzisyak, acting head of the State Drug Control Service of Ukraine
Albert Grasel, chief inspector at  the Austrian Federal Ministry of Interior
Anna Dovbakh, program director, the Eurasian Harm Reduction Network
Anton Basenko, specialist at the Alliance for Public Health, patient of the opioid substitution therapy, Ukraine

11-00 Topic: “Presentation of Eastbook Portal”
Maciej Zaniewicz, Eastbook deputy editor in chief
Pawel Charkiewicz, founder of Eastbook project

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

13-00 Topic: “4th International contest “Stop Censorship! Citizens for Free Countries”: journalists and art-activists join efforts against censorship and corruption”
Alim Aliev, co-founder of the civil initiative “Crimea SOS”
Aksinya Kurina, organizer of the contest “Stop Censorship! Citizens for Free Countries”
Alisa Lozhkina, Art Ukraine senior editor
Natalia Sokolenko, journalist, Hromadske Radio
Anastasia Stanko, journalist of Hromadske.TV

14-00 Topic: “Announcing the 2nd  “Intermezzo” Short Story Festival”
Iryna Vikyrchak, director of the International Short Novel Contest “Intermezzo”
Valeriy Fianchuk, acting director of Culture Department, Vinnytsia City Council
Tamila Tasheva, co-founder of the civil initiative “Crimea SOS” Oleksandr Vesheleni, festival program director, expert in literature
Tetyana Manziuk, events coordinator, art agency “ArtPole”
Ewa Figel, director of Polish Institute in Kyiv
Anna Vovchenko, curator of special program “Island Europe”
Valeriya Sochyvets, curator of festival cinema program, co-founder of the NGO “SUK” (“Contemporary Ukrainian Cinema”)

15-00 Topic: “What is essential for development of business competition in Ukraine”
Yulia Kovaliv, First Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine
Marta Kuzmyn, Senior Economist, Center for Economic Strategy
Russell Pittman, Director of Economic Research,  Economic Analysis Group,  Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice
Maria Nizhnik, Acting Head of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine
Moderator: Glib Vyshlinskiy, Executive Director at the Center for Economic Strategies,  member of the Reanimation Package of Reforms Council