Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications

Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications
Міністерство культури та стратегічних комунікацій
Agency overview
FormedSeptember 2, 2019; 5 years ago (2019-09-02)
Preceding agencies
  • Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports
  • Ministry of Culture and Information Policy
JurisdictionGovernment of Ukraine
Headquarters19, Ivan Franko Street, Kyiv[1]
Minister responsible
Child agencies
  • State Service of Cinematography
  • State Service of Cultural Valuables Transportation
  • State Service of National Cultural Heritage
  • State Service of Tourism
Websitemcsc.gov.ua/en

The Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications (MCSC), known previously as Ministry of Culture and Information Policy (MCIP), is the main state authority in the system of central government of Ukraine responsible for ensuring the informational sovereignty of Ukraine, in particular regarding the dissemination of socially important information in Ukraine and beyond, as well as ensuring the functioning of state information resources and country's cultural development and history preservation. It is fully based on the former Ministry of Culture and Tourism (that was dissolved in 2010).

The Honcharuk Government (on 29 August 2019) merged the Ministry of Youth and Sports, established on February 28, 2013, and the Ministry of Culture (MinCult), established on December 9, 2010, into the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports.[2]

But its succeeding Shmyhal Government undid this merger,[3] separating the Ministry of Youth and Sports into a separate body, and the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports on 23 March, 2020 will be renamed the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy,[4] joining the Ministry of Information Policy, which operated from 2 December 2014[5][6] to 29 August 2019.[2] On 6 September 2024, the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy was renamed to Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications.[7]

  1. ^ "Official website of the Ministry. Contact Us".
  2. ^ a b New Cabinet formed in Ukraine The Rada appointed the new Cabinet: Avakov and Markarova remained (РАДА ПРИЗНАЧИЛА НОВИЙ КАБМІН: АВАКОВ І МАРКАРОВА ЛИШИЛИСЬ), Ukrayinska Pravda (29 August 2019)
  3. ^ "Ukraine's new Cabinet of Ministers".
  4. ^ "Деякі питання оптимізації діяльності центральних органів виконавчої влади" [Some issues of optimizing the activities of central executive bodies]. zakon.rada.gov.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  5. ^ "Міністр інформаційної політики України" (Press release). Supreme Council of Ukraine. 2 December 2014. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference FLUYGIU21214 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ "Про перейменування Міністерства культури та інформаційної політики України і Міністерства розвитку громад, територій та інфраструктури України". Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). 2024-09-06.