Schedule of press briefings in Ukraine Crisis Media Center for September 2, 2015

10-30 Topic: “Three civic initiatives – Reanimation package of reforms (RPR) “Culture” group, Platform for strategic initiatives “Culture 2025” and “Culture Congress activists” – announcing their decision to unite into the “Alliance of culture”
Natalia Kryvda, RPR “Culture” group chief expert
Mykola Skyba, Platform for strategic initiatives “Culture -2025”
Olena Pravylo, president of the NGO “Culture Congress activists”

11-00 Topic: “Statement by the civil movement “August 13 – No changes to the Constitution under the martial law” on the results of Verkhovna Rada’s preliminary approval of constitutional amendments regarding decentralization”
Volodymyr Vasylenko, Ph.D in law, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Ukraine, International Criminal Tribunal judge
Viktor Shyshkin, Constitutional Court of Ukraine judge
Taras Stetskiv, MP of I-IV and VI convocations of Verkhovna Rada, public activist
Mykhailo Besarab political expert

12-00 Topic: “Local elections in Mariupol and Donbass”
Pavlo Zhebrivskyi, head of Donetsk state administration
Maria Podybailo, political expert, NGO “Novyi Mariupol” [New Mariupol] Iryna Perkova, head of the Gromadske TV “Pryazovya”

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

13-00 Topic: “Reforms: autumn season”
Taras Kachka, Head of Ukraine Reforms Communications Taskforce project

14-00 Topic: “General update on OSCE SMM activity and the security situation in Ukraine”
Alexander Hug, Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine

14-30 Topic: “Awarding US citizen George Sayevycha Order “For courage”
Yuriy Sayevych, journalist, member of the Revolution dignity
Mykola Markov, representative of the NGO “Barricade”
Oksana Andriyenko, representative of the NGO “All-Ukrainian People’s Square Coordination Council”
Oleksiy Satov, representative of the NGO “Free Generation”
Pavlo Symonenko, “Union of military operations and ATO fighters, veterans and victims”