canis therapy for a child has long been known in the world, in ukraine it is only gaining momentum, during trips to other cities pets must be accompanied by dog ​​trainers, canine therapists. according to the director of the dog breeding club, mrs. iryna, there are very few breeds that are not suitable for this work at all. the only ones who are definitely not involved are puppies. you can start preparing four-legged friends for such a mission from three months, but you shouldn't do it yourself, because they should be busy with it. only specialists, each dog is selected before the start. you have to be very tentative on a person, to really want communication with a person, with any stranger, and then there is training, then our dogs pass exams, canister therapy in general, it is psychological relief, rehabilitation and help in stressful situations, and it is needed now. .. such interaction with animals

normalizes the work of the nervous system, reduces the level of physical and psychological stress, blood pressure helps to overcome anxiety and fear of dogs, and for children with special needs, it is not only one from rehabilitation methods, but also learning that is perceived in a playful way. the dog receives a very heavy load and a lot of stress from the work itself. the fact is that dogs... must communicate and communicate in a playful way with complete strangers, with children, so the overload in dogs is really very big. also, dog trainers and dogs visited one of the kindergartens in belotserki. there was no limit to joy here either. in general, canisterotherapy is excellent for the adaptation of displaced persons, families of fallen defenders, children in kindergartens houses and people who experienced the horrors of war. this method of zootherapy has

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greetings, good evening, my name is myroslav barchuk, this is a self-titled program, a joint project of ukrainian pen and espresso tv channel, and today we will talk about the ukrainian cultural fund, how to prevent its second collapse, how to save it? you it may seem now that this topic against the background of what is happening in the country, against the background of the drama that we are watching, may not be... so hot or important, but believe me, this is exactly what we are fighting for and on the fronts, it's culture. for a very long time, in ukrainian journalism, for more than 20 years, i have been observing how ukrainian

culture, it was called culture, but was pushed out, disappeared from ukrainian television, and here we are today, what we will talk about, is actually a consequence of how these... the secondary nature of culture in the minds of people, the minds of civil society, as inattention to media culture, to which it all leads. today, my interlocutors and guests are volodymyr sheyko, director of the ukrainian institute, cultural diplomacy expert, cultural manager. volodya, congratulations, good evening, bohdan logvynenko, journalist, writer, founder and ideological inspirer of the ukrainer project, also our guest, congratulations bohdan. and bohdan and volodymyr are candidates for the supervisory, new supervisory board of the ukrainian cultural foundation, and now there is a competition for this supervisory board. bohdan is a candidate from public organizations, and volodymyr is a candidate from cultural institutions.

later, i will ask why they decided to submit their candidacies, why it is important for them, but first i will explain what the ukrainian cultural fund is. for those who may not be very knowledgeable. so, the ukrainian cultural fund is such a state investor, it is actually a state institution that must fund artistic projects on the basis of cultural, competitive selections, transparent and honest. the budget of the ukrainian cultural fund for the year 2024 is uah 215.5 million. it. our taxes with you, that's why this is especially important: if we talk in one sentence about the prehistory, about the drama of the ukrainian cultural fund, then the story is like this: after the revolution of dignity , this cultural institution is created, the relevant legislation is described. at

the beginning of 2018, cultural manager yuliya fediv became the executive director of the ukf. the newly created institution has... a good reputation among and in the cultural environment and in society, it has positive reviews and is gradually turning into such, it seemed would, became a cultural institution, which , in fact, many wonderful projects were financed, you must have been to exhibitions , musical events, which, which were financed precisely from the submission of... experts of the ukrainian cultural fund, and then i will quote daria badyor, a critic who wrote the following : in 2021, the new ministry of culture, together with the president's office, hacked the ukrainian cultural fund, as they had previously hacked the state cinema,

in order to turn it into a manual institution. so, my first question to the guests is: how did it become possible, why... and ukrainian the cultural institution, which seemed, as i said, became an institution, so it seemed to us that, that, that it is irreversible, so that we have some kind of reputational or'. that story, how did it happen that it was possible to raid? bohdan, let's start with you. well, i will probably say that this happens sometimes with various institutions, and this happens not only in our country, sometimes the laws are not perfect, they need to be improved, and therefore, in particular, now it is extremely important for the public to pay attention to the fact that this institution settled improve the law, improve there provisions on the supervisory board and so on, and

in order to further prevent hacker attacks, this is an ongoing process, there are a large number of dinosaurs in ukrainian culture, as in any other sphere, who are trying to regain power, recognition, distribution of funds, which for many, it is extremely important, therefore... well, first of all , it should be about the security of the institution, unfortunately, the law on the ukf was imperfect, it was perfect at the time of its creation, yes, but in the process we have already seen many shortcomings that must be now to improve, but in order to remove them, these shortcomings, a worthy supervisory board must be elected. owner how did it happen that in the 21st year it was possible to raid

the ukrainian cultural fund, as many cultural workers say, as many people with a good reputation, progressive views say, well, i will probably start with an answer to a question that logically precedes yours to the question, the actual question is why, yes, who needs it, why raid or hack one of such system-forming institutions. culture in in ukraine, in the post-maidan era, for viewers who may not know or have not followed the situation with the ukf, i will tell you that the ukf was conceived as a new, transparent, honest, publicly accountable way of distributing budget funds, i.e. taxpayers' funds , as among the state , as well as the non-state sector of culture, it is very important to say this, since before the creation of the ukf, almost all budget funds went

through the ministry of culture for the maintenance of the so-called network of cultural institutions, that is, these are theaters, museums, other national and culture, which actually excluded this process excluded the entire non-state, i.e. independent public sector, from the field of cultural financing. and this is a huge number of people who work in it, and this is a huge number of initiatives, many of which i am convinced, the audience knows well, and festivals, and independent theaters, and various public initiatives in the field of cinema, literature, music and the like , and the very establishment of the ukf meant that access to budget funds in a transparent manner was given to a huge number of new agents, which until... were actually excluded from the field of view of the state, and this, of course,

created the need for many unscrupulous people to take advantage of this opportunity, to distort the procedures for the selection of members of the supervisory board, and then the procedures for the approval of experts who evaluate applications and, accordingly, the results competitive selection of projects in his favor, that is why the situation that happened in the 21st year became possible, when... as bohdan said, the law of the ukf was written in such a way that the procedures for selecting members of the supervisory board of the ukf could be to bypass or it was possible to do so use them to bring the right people to the supervisory board. we will talk about this separately, because it is a very interesting story, because this competitive selection procedure with the help of public organizations is not only about the ukf. was, it was , for example, applied to the art arsenal, the election

of the director of the art arsenal, when mykhailo kolinyak, the minister of culture of the yanukovych regime, who was remembered for holding a violin while playing it between his legs, almost became the director of the art arsenal. and only thanks to one we managed to get a vote, because i was also in the competition commission. that's why i speak as a witness, we managed to prevent this with only one vote, and my other question, which is actually very important, is under... that legislation, we'll talk about it later, but did the civil society do it then two years ago, to prevent this, if such results were a selection, then obviously not everything was done by the civil society, since the procedure looks like that the quota of the civil society, which actually consists of two people, in it the public can

to nominate both candidates for the supervisory board and voters, who then elect these candidates... by voting, and, unfortunately, the quantitative rule worked here, that is, one of the unscrupulous candidates and current members of the supervisory board introduced a critical the number of related and friendly public organizations that actually voted for him and thus he chose a larger number of votes for the rest and it seems to me that despite the mobilization of the community. around ukf, around yulia fediv, who, who happened in several waves during the previous few years, somehow did not work at the time of selection to the supervisory board, that is , daria badyor correctly says that we, well, we actually lost this tutu. we will now explain, explain to people what we

mean when we talk about pocket money. public organization, who then elect the members of the supervisory board, but first we will show the appeal, ukrainian cultural figures appealed on friday to president volodymyr zelenskyi, please show this appeal to the ministry of culture, information policy of ukraine with a call to assume responsibility for the formation of a new composition of the supervisory council of ukrainian cultural. fund, please show this appeal, and they write that the current procedure for elections to the supervisory board undermines the principle of independence and impartiality, since the requirements for candidates to have an impeccable business reputation, as provided by law, remain purely formal, what they demand, so in this appeals to the president and the ministry of culture, so

they call, in particular in case of election... to to members of the supervisory board of persons whose actions show signs of election manipulation through the voting of fully authorized responsible public organizations, to demand that they remove themselves from the appointment as members of the supervisory board, and also to conduct an open discussion of candidacies according to the quotas of the president of ukraine and the ministry of ukraine and the information policy of ukraine with a community of cultural activists, so here it must be explained that in total the supervisory board of the ucf has nine members, four of them are appointed by the president and the ministry of culture without any voting, and another four cultural institutions and public associations, the ninth member of the supervisory board is elected by the already elected members of the board, and now the elections of the second four from cultural institutions and public

associations are underway, i would like to... show show the diagram, one table that is printed by ukrainian pravda, this is a table from izi, the institute of legislative ideas, where more than fifty organizations that will actually vote for the members of the supervisory board were followed, so there are 103 of these organizations in total, and here... of these of organizations are related to the approval of the institute of legislative ideas with one candidate, the current member of the supervisory board of the ukf oleksandr suslenskyi. so, izi - institute of legislative ideas claims that about 20 of these public organizations are directly related to oleksandr

suslanskyi's family. the same number has potential or partner. connections with oleksandr suslynskyi, i am quoting the institute of legislative ideas. now, actually, the time has come for me to ask a fairly obvious question to you, bohdan, and to you, volodya, why in the background this is what you decided to run for to the supervisory board, and if this is the situation, as we see in this table, then what gives you optimism that it is possible, that the mission, that the mission can be completed, gives me optimism about unity of public organizations, that is, it is possible for the first time. in similar elections to supervisory boards, various institutions, the majority of candidates withdrew, and, that is, six out of 11

, in favor of others, so that what the audience just saw did not pass, actually, there were two candidates, mr. suslenskyi and him colleague, so that they do not pass to the supervisory board and further... do not deal with the distribution of funds, because for them it is purely the distribution of funds in reality, that is, among the environment, that is, among public organizations, and six candidates withdrew, yes in your favor, yes, as well as volodymyr vorobey, volodymyr vorobey , who is a member of the supervisory board of promprilad, so why did i leave, because... we had quite a long experience of working with the ukrainian cultural fund, it was very successful, we received some kind of award there ukrainian cultural fund, well, since the 21st year, they decided not

to apply to the ukf any more, because of the fact that it was hacked, and now uh, that is, we have not applied for three years and are ready not to apply any further, but... we understand , yukraira, i mean, as a public organization, we understand the importance of institutions, the importance for us, of this institution at the start, yes, because ukf actually supported us in the first years of our existence, and therefore now this opportunity, it should return to those cultural agents who are now talking about for example, the ukrainian war in... there are books about it, but we have to record our narrative, we have to spread it in the world, because similar exhibitions, as russia tried

to hold in italy, they will take place and multiply, books, ex-wagnerians will be published all over the world, and we must oppose this, and it is clear that the ukrainian institute, this is the mission of the ukrainian institute, to spread ukrainian narratives... in the world, yes, but these narratives must appear here, and the ukrainian the cultural fund should support those sprouts of culture that are emerging here now, and this is actually my personal motivation. bohdan, but you said that you have not submitted since the 21st year, that is, you, you know that the supervisory board that exists now is in the ukrainian cultural fund or those experts who work there, that they are somewhere... . were biased, or there are any problems in the activities of the ukf, can you assert this, or are you simply not submitting in principle, or is there already such a formed opinion in

the cultural or media environment regarding this, please explain to people who do not know anything they know, but there was a whole chain of events there, i.e. we watched how suslensky became, well, not only him, but became a member of the supervisory board, i.e. it was unscrupulous, and further unscrupulous were the elections for... educational director of the ukrainian cultural fund and then there were dismissals of experts, well, i can’t name specific cases now, but it also happened unscrupulously, accordingly we made a decision for ourselves that it is a very big reputational risk for us to continue applying to the program of the ukrainian cultural fund, therefore as an applicant, we had no work experience, but... well, from time to time there were various cases of not very successful cooperation with the ukf, certain projects that had already been selected by experts and

voted for were canceled by the supervisory board, accordingly it began manual management of the cultural fund, which absolutely destroys its reputation for transparency and fairness in project selection. volod, why, why did you decide to submit your candidacy, i know that unlike public organizations, yes, cultural organizations, none of the candidates, if i understand correctly , did not withdraw their candidacy, that is, public organizations in the field of culture, i am running at the request of culture, from cultural institutions, yes, i am running at the request of nomi. artistic arsenal, and , as far as i know, none of the candidates applying for a role in this category, for

participation in the supervisory board, also appeared. their candidacies in favor of someone else, what that means, we can only guess, maybe it means nothing, but it is important to me - the principle of general management of the institution in the form of a supervisory board is important to me , that is, it is very important, it seems to me to unpack it, because before the foundation of the ukrainian academy of arts, before the foundation of the ukrainian institute, the ukrainian institute of books, i.e. the first few post-maidan years, cultural institutions... were governed by appropriate ministries, i.e. central bodies of executive power, so-called management bodies. this meant that the ministries had practically unlimited influence on the activities and on the decisions made by them. institutions. the post-maidan era changed this paradigm and introduced the practice of the existence of supervisory councils around new cultural institutions, which were supposed to take over the functions of the governing body, that is, the functions

of the controlling body and functions. collegial body that approves, well, some key strategic decisions of such a high level of these organizations, and the idea was that representatives of the public or the independent sector should have a large, if not a majority, of the votes in the supervisory boards, that is, to remove from the state the possibility of manual regime to manage these new institutions in terms of their design and meaning, therefore... the supervisory board of the ukrainian institute operates according to this logic, the supervisory board of the ukrainian institute of books operates according to a similar logic, and it is very important to me that such a key institution as the ukf is also managed in a virtuous way, so that the interests of very different stakeholders are represented in it, but so that none of them has the temptation to turn on the handbrake again and change the activities, the operational

activities of the fund. in a convenient or necessary way, this principle, cultural institutions borrowed from corporate governance , it is not new, it is as old as the world, when a business owner, yes, in our case , the founding state delegates the functions of managing an institution or organization or business to the supervisory board and removes itself from a number of strategic and tactical decisions, and it is to me it seems a great test of all of us for the maturity and readiness of the state to dare to take such a step is very uncharacteristic for itself, because the instinct of the state assigns it to control the maximum of all subordinate institutions, and on the other hand on the one hand, this is a test for the public, which must also be able to mobilize, which must also be able to defend its voice, make itself visible to the same authorities and, e. be

an interlocutor for them, who inspires both trust and a desire to communicate with them. here, when we talk about the state, in this situation , the state is represented in the supervisory board by as many as four people, yes, there are two people from the president's office and two people from the ministry of culture. by the way, the ministry of culture somehow communicates, we know. already candidates from the ministry of culture to of the supervisory board of the ukf, bohdan? no, we don't know , well, i would say at least four, yes, because most likely six people represent the state and two represent the public sector, since cultural institutions are mostly also state-owned, and now the second question, here we are now back to the legislation, because you started talking about it as

if it was enough... uh, how to say, too optimistic, maybe the law that regulated was written after the maidan, and uh, and which actually determines that the office of the president, yes, delegates two people to the supervisory board ukf, in general, there are such precedents, first of all , are there such precedents in the world, yes, when the presidential administration... delegates its people to a cultural institution, yes, for example, there are such presidents, you know, you know, i would said that it depends a lot on the role of the president, because the role of the president is representative, yes, and, well, we know democracies where the president has very limited powers and is more of a symbol of democracy than