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The Cabinet restored the Ministry of Culture's original name, separating strategic communications
The Cabinet of Ministers renamed the Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications of Ukraine to the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine.
The government adopted the corresponding resolution on 29 October 2025.
The Ministry of Culture must, within two weeks, submit to the Cabinet of Ministers proposals for amendments to legal acts that follow from this resolution.
Recall that on 21 October, during the vote to appoint Tetiana Berezhna to the post of Deputy Prime Minister for Humanitarian Policy of Ukraine — Minister of Culture of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada supported the decision to separate “strategic communications” from the Ministry of Culture.
During consideration of her appointment, Berezhna herself noted that strategic communications should be coordinated from a single government center, so this policy is being transferred to the Cabinet of Ministers.
In July, Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko, announcing the appointment of Tetiana Berezhna as acting minister of culture and strategic communications, wrote that the government plans to separate information policy and strategic communications into a standalone direction with a clear mandate and resources.
At the beginning of October, the government may decide on the method of separating information policy and StratCom from the Ministry of Culture. One possible and most likely option is removing the State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting from the subordination of the Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications and placing it directly under the Cabinet of Ministers.
In October, the Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications told Detector Media that decisions regarding possible changes to the structure, functions, subordination, and financing of the ministry, as well as other state bodies in 2026, have not yet been made.
During a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Humanitarian and Information Policy on 15 October, Tetiana Berezhna explained that formal procedures are currently underway to separate strategic communications from the Ministry of Culture.
She said that, together with this policy, institutions that implement the relevant policy will be transferred to the Cabinet’s administration — in particular the State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting, Ukrinform, the Ministry of Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories, and the Center for Strategic Communications. At the same time, policymaking in the media sphere, journalist safety issues, and eurointegration will remain within the competence of the Ministry of Culture.
Note that in September 2024 the Cabinet of Ministers renamed the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy to the Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications. During its existence, the ministry has changed its name at least seven times.
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