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Ukrainian Parliament Confirms Tetiana Berezhna as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Culture

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Photo: Ukrainian Parliament Confirms Tetiana Berezhna as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Culture. Source: mcsc
Photo: Ukrainian Parliament Confirms Tetiana Berezhna as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Culture. Source: mcsc

Ukraine’s parliament has approved Tetiana Berezhna as Deputy Prime Minister for Humanitarian Policy and Minister of Culture, formally confirming her after nearly three months as acting minister. 

The Gaze reports this, referring to a statement made by Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications.

“In times of war, culture cannot be a secondary issue – it is part of our national resilience, identity, and voice in the world,” Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko told lawmakers while presenting Berezhna’s candidacy. “She understands how to turn vision into practical results and has a systemic view of humanitarian policy’s role in national development.”

As both culture minister and deputy prime minister, Berezhna will coordinate Ukraine’s entire humanitarian and cultural policy, including cooperation among ministries responsible for culture, education, national memory, and religious affairs.

Under her leadership, the Ministry of Culture will focus on cultural heritage, creative industries, and European integration, while strategic communications, the national telethon, and the state news agency Ukrinform will move under the State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting. 

Lawmakers said the change aims to improve coordination and strengthen humanitarian policy as an element of national security. 

In her first address to parliament after the vote, Berezhna outlined her vision for the ministry and Ukraine’s broader humanitarian agenda.

“Culture is not an accessory to the state – it is its foundation. It underpins the economy, education, and security. Culture explains who we are, why we are, and what we are fighting for. It is our code, our memory, and the meaning of our struggle,” she said.

Berezhna pledged to make cultural policy a strategic driver of resilience, recovery, and international engagement, highlighting several key priorities:

– attracting investment in culture through a new Law on Philanthropy and partnerships with Ukrainian businesses and international donors;

– launching the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Fund, to be presented at the “Cooperation for Resilience” conference in Copenhagen this November, aimed at restoring war-damaged cultural institutions;

– ensuring financial autonomy for museums, theaters, and other cultural bodies so they can generate and reinvest their own revenues.

– protecting cultural heritage while enabling innovation and development in the creative sector.

She also emphasized that international cultural diplomacy would remain a top priority. “Through culture, Ukraine can communicate its values to the world more powerfully than through any traditional diplomatic channel,” the politician said.

Born in 1989 in Rohatyn, Ivano-Frankivsk region, Berezhna holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in law from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and has completed professional programs at the Aspen Institute Kyiv, the Kyiv School of Economics, and the London School of Economics.

Before joining the cabinet, she spent a decade as a lawyer and later served as Deputy Minister of Economy, overseeing labor market reform, employment policy, and veteran reintegration.

As acting minister since July 2025, she represented Ukraine at Expo 2025 in Osaka, coordinating the national pavilion and cultural programming.

As The Gaze reported earlier, the Ukrainian pavilion “Not For Sale” at EXPO 2025 in Osaka welcomed over 3.2 million visitors in six months and became an important platform for the international promotion of Ukraine.



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