The Verkhovna Rada has appointed acting Minister of Culture Tetiana Berezhna as Vice Prime Minister for Humanitarian Policy and Minister of Culture. The corresponding draft resolution No. 14123 was voted for by 266 MPs out of the minimum 226 required, the Ukrainian News agency reports.
Berezhna, 36, has been temporarily acting Minister of Culture and Strategic Communications since July. Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko said that Berezhna's main task in her new position is to ensure proper funding for Ukrainian culture in wartime.
Before this appointment, Berezhna had been working as Deputy Minister of Economy since June 2022 and was responsible for labor, employment, integration of veterans into the labor market and gender equality in pay.
Berezhna graduated from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Bachelor of Laws, Master of Laws), interned in the Parliament of Canada as a Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Program (CUPP) fellow, studied at the Ukrainian School of Political Studies, the Aspen Institute Kyiv, Kyiv School of Economics, Government Relations Specialist (GR), and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
In 2025, she graduated from the School of Strategic Architect program at Kyiv Mohyla Business School (KMBS) with a degree in Management and Administration.
Since 2011, Berezhna has worked at Vasyl Kisil & Partners law firm, and in 2017 she received a certificate of attorney's license.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, with the appointment of Tetiana Berezhna as the Minister of Culture, strategic communications and the United News telethon will be taken out of the Ministry of Culture's control and placed under the management of the Cabinet of Ministers, while the formation of information policy, the topic of journalists' safety, and European integration processes will remain under the Ministry.
On July 17, the Verkhovna Rada appointed Yuliia Svyrydenko, who served as First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy in the government of Denys Shmyhal, as the new Prime Minister, and a new government, but without a Minister of Culture.
On July 29, the new Cabinet of Ministers appointed Tetiana Berezhna as acting Minister of Culture and Strategic Communications.
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