Chairperson of Belarusian Association of Journalists, (since 2015).
Other professional activity:
the “Femida-NOVA” newspaper’s Deputy Editor-in-chief (1998 – 2000),
Expert and Head of the Law Center for Media Protection at BAJ (1998 – 2015),
author and presenter of I Have the Right TV program (Belsat TV Channel, Poland) (2008- 2011),
Lecturer of European Humanities University (2008 – 2013),
One of the authors of the Concept of reforming media legislation of the Republic of Belarus, the Concept of modernization of media legislation of the Republic of Belarus in the sphere of protection of the national information space, as well as a number of draft laws in the field of media.
Volodymyr Bugrov
Rector of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Professor
He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy at Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv and obtained the diploma with honours in 1991.
In 1991, Volodymyr Bugrov entered Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv as a post-graduate student and defended his dissertation “Language and Symbol in the Context of Understanding” in 1996 (specialty 09.00.01 – Ontology, Gnoseology and Phenomenology).
University career, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv:
1995-1998 – Assistant Professor of the Philosophy and Science Methodology Department at the Faculty of Philosophy;
1998-2009 – Deputy Dean for Research at the Faculty of Philosophy;
2009-2021 – Vice-Rector for Education and Research;
2014 – the Head of the History of Philosophy Department at the Faculty of Philosophy.
Prof. Bugrov is a Chairman of the Scientific and Methodological Council at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Prof. Bugrov published over 100 academic and educational works.
He gained the Honorary Award in Education of Ukraine in 2001 as well as the status of the Honorary Educationalist of Ukraine in 2014.
Sergiy Tomilenko
President of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine, member of the Steering Committee of the European Federation of Journalists.
Sergiy Tomilenko has been a journalist since 1995. He worked as a correspondent, editor of the department, deputy editor-in-chief of the regional newspaper “Molod Cherkasy Region”. Since 1998 to 2010 he was the editor-in-chief of the regional socio-economic newspaper “Nova Doba”. Sergiy also is a founder and project manager of online media “Procherk.info”.
Graduate of the School of Contemporary Journalism (IREX ProMedia Ukraine, 1998) and the Ukrainian School of Political Studies (project of Council of Europe, 2007). Took a part in professional training programs: researched local media in the US (2000), Belgium and the Netherlands (2000), China (2003), Georgia (2005). Worked as Associate Professor of Journalism at the Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy.
Since May 2019 - member of the Steering Committee of the European Federation of Journalists.
Project assistant
Hrant is founder and chairman of the Center for Strategic Research NGO and Times.am Social-Political Analytic portal. He is also editor in chief of Voskanapat.info news website, which is focused on analyzing conflicts, particularly war in Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) and Armenia.
