Ukrinform, foreign broadcasting and United News telethon to move from culture ministry to cabinet management - MP Kravchuk
Deputy Head of the Committee on Humanitarian and Information Policy Yevheniia Kravchuk (Servant of the People faction) has said that the Ukrainian National Information Agency Ukrinform, the state enterprise Multimedia Platform for Foreign Broadcasting of Ukraine, and the all-Ukrainian information telethon United News (Yedyny Novyny) will be separated from the Ministry of Culture and will be under the management of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
"Tetyana Berezhna said that strategic communications will be separated from the Ministry of Culture. The State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting (this will be the coordinating Central Broadcasting Committee), as well as Ukrinform, foreign broadcasting, the Center for Strategic Communications, and United News will be separated from the Ministry of Culture and will be under the management of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine," Kravchuk wrote on Facebook.
At the same time, she said that the formation of information policy (including legislative changes for the industry), the issue of journalist safety, and European integration processes will remain under the Ministry of Culture.
As reported, Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said that the government plans to separate information policy and strategic communications into a separate direction with a clear mandate and resources in order to "focus on working on the information resilience of the country."
At the end of July, Kravchuk said it was not known when the separation of the Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications would take place, since this would require a vote on the appointment of the minister in the Verkhovna Rada.
In August, the acting Minister of Culture and Strategic Communications, Tetyana Berezhna, admitted that the process of separating strategic communications into a separate institution should be completed by the end of 2025, and information policy would most likely remain with the Ministry of Culture.