Overview

• Parliament’s website shows a draft resolution filed to confirm Berezhna to the combined post overseeing humanitarian policy and the culture ministry.
• The Humanitarian and Information Policy Committee recommended her appointment on October 15 after the prime minister formally submitted the nomination.
• The ruling Servant of the People faction has indicated support, and a plenary vote is expected during the next session week.
• Planned allocations include a ministry budget of 15.843 billion UAH (about a 30% increase), 4 billion UAH for the “1000 hours of Ukrainian content” program, and a doubling of Ukrainian Cultural Foundation funding to 410 million UAH.
• Berezhna has said strategic communications will be separated from the ministry, with bodies such as Derzhkomteleradio, Ukrinform, foreign broadcasting, and the Center for Strategic Communications moving to a different coordination structure.