Schedule of press-briefings in Ukraine Crisis Media Center for June 23, 2016

10-00 Topic: “Announcing the all-Ukrainian commemoration event in honor of those who have fallen in the ATO, dedicated to International Widows’ Day” 
Artur Derevianko, head of the State Service of Ukraine on War Veterans & ATO Participants
Iryna Mikniuk, widow of Oleg Mikhniuk – Hero of Ukraine (posthumously), awarded by the Order for Courage (posthumously), senior sergeant of the “Aidar” battalion 2nd assault company; director of All-Ukrainian Union “Wings of the 8th Hundred” (union of families of fallen and missing ATO participants, war veterans and volunteers)
Elina Galva, widow of Viacheslav Galva – activist, reserve colonel of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Chief Intelligence Department, combat trainer, military advisor to “Azov” battalion
Yevgen Lytvynovych, singer & composer, super-finalist of the show “X-Factor” and “Ukraine’s Got Talent”

10-30 Topic: “Research Presentation: “Foreign policy audit: Ukraine-Romania” 
Sergiy Solodkyi, First Deputy Director of the Institute of World Policy
Cornel Ionescu, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Romania to Ukraine
Gennadiy Altukhov, Deputy Director of the Second European Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
Igor Zhovkva, Director of Presidential Administration Main Department of Foreign Policy and European Integration (ТВС)
Stanislav Sekrieru, Senior Research Fellow, Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM)

12-00 Topic: “Project “Class Art: East-West”. Teenagers from ATO zone and from Volyn region write plays”. UCMC pilot project “Spokesperson of Peaceful Life”
Natalia Vorozhbyt, curator of the project, script writer & play writer
Nicola McCartney, founder of the project “Class Act” (Great Britain)
Anna Butkevych, patron of the project
Oleksandr Fomenko, senior project manager
Liza Smith, senior project director
Rymma Ziubina, actress of Kyiv Academic Youth Theatre, project participant
Stanislav Zhyrkov, stage director, art director of the theatre “Zoloti Vorota”
Oleg Vergelis, theatre critic, culture section editor of DT.UA (“Dzerkalo tyzhnya”), co-organizer of the project
Children from Popasna, Novovolynsk and Mykolaivka, project participants 

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

15-00 Topic: “The “Chechen Case”: what’s next?”
Dokka Itslayev, lawyer of Mykola Karpiuk
Maryna Dubrovina, lawyer of Stanislav Klykh
Olena Karpiuk, wife of Mykola Karpiuk
Tamara Klykh, mother of Stanislav Klykh
Nadia Volkova, lawyer of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union
Maria Tomak, coordinator of the campaign “LetMyPeopleGo