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

9-00 Viktoria Kushnir, spokesperson, Ministry of Defense of Ukraine
Leonid Matyukhin, spokesman, ATO (via Skype)
Vladyslav Seleznyov, acting spokesman for the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces

10-30 Topic: “Economic challenges for Ukraine in 2015”
Andrey Illarionov, senior fellow at the Cato Institute (Washington D.C.), former advisor to the President of Russian Federation (2000-2005)

11-00 Topic: “The price of education: what does the 2015 budget entail?”
Yehor Stadnyi, expert of the Centre for Society Research
Inna Sovsun, First Deputy Minister of Education of Ukraine

11-45 Topic: “Problem of implementation of the UN Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child regarding the involvement of children in armed conflicts”
Mykola Kuleba, Authorized representative of the President of Ukraine for Children’s Rights
Dina Gud, chief expert at the Danish Refugee Council
Dmytro Natalukha, legal expert at the “Right for protection” charity fund
Olga Skrypnyk, advocacy expert and chairman of the “Almeda” civic education center
Olena Vynohradova, legal analyst at the “Right for protection” charity fund
Elvira Zeytullayeva, advocacy expert at the “Right for protection” charity fund
Svitlana Tarabanova, coordinator of humanitarian and children issues at the NGO “Vostok-SOS”

12-30 Col. Andriy Lysenko, spokesman, ATO

13-00 Topic: “The new legislation initiative to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court”
Oleksandra Matviychuk, coordinator at the Euromaidan-SOS civic initiative, Head of the Civic Freedoms Centre
Tetiana Mazur, executive director at Amnesty International Ukraine
Vitaliy Kupriy, MP from the Petro Poroshenko’s Bloc

13-30 Topic: “Internally displaced persons – a burden or a new opportunity for Ukraine? What kind of strategy Ukraine should have in order to re-integrate the Ukrainians who fled Donbas and Crimea?”
Aleksandr Melanchenko, Co-Chair of the NGO “iDP Ukraine”
Oksana Yermishyna, Co-Chair of the NGO “iDP Ukraine”