Tetyana Berezhna (politician)
Tetyana Berezhna | |
|---|---|
Тетяна Бережна | |
Berezhna in 2023 | |
| Deputy Prime Minister for Humanitarian Policy Minister of Culture | |
| Assumed office 21 October 2025 | |
| President | Volodymyr Zelenskyy |
| Prime Minister | Yulia Svyrydenko |
| Preceded by | Mykola Tochytskyi (as minister of culture) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 9 January 1989 |
| Party | Independent |
| Alma mater | National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy |
Tetyana Vasylivna Berezhna (Ukrainian: Тетяна Василівна Бережна; born 9 January 1989) is a Ukrainian lawyer and politician serving as deputy prime minister for humanitarian policy and minister of culture since 2025.[1] From 2022 to 2025, she served as deputy minister of economy.[2]
Early life
Berezhna was born Tetyana Matsyuk on 9 January 1979 in Rohatyn, which was part of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in the Ukrainian SSR.[3] In 2006, she started attending the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, which she graduated from in 2010 with a bachelor's degree.[3] Two years later, from the same institute, she received her master's degree in law.[3] She also participated in an internship at the Parliament of Canada as part of the Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Program. She also started attending postgraduate courses at the London School of Economics and Political Science, at the Aspen Institute Kyiv, and then at the Kyiv School of Economics.[3]
In 2011, she began work as a partner in the firm Vasil Kisil & Partners, specializating in taxes and corporate affairs.[3] In 2017, she received a cerificate for the right to practice law.[3]
Political career
In June 2022, she left her job as a lawyer, and became the Deputy Economy Minister under Yulia Svyrydenko.[4] In July 2025, she was named as Acting Minister of Culture after Mykola Tochytskyi was dismissed from the position after he dismissed Maksym Ostapenko.[5] She was later in October confirmed as the new permanent Culture Minister, after the Verkhovna Rada approved her appointment with 266 votes in favor.[5]
References
- ^ "Рада призначила Бережну віцепрем'єром і міністром культури: що про неї відомо" (in Ukrainian). RBC-Ukraine. 21 October 2025.
- ^ "Татьяна Бережная". DSnews (in Ukrainian). 20 October 2025.
- ^ a b c d e f "Тетяна Бережна - досьє, біографія, фото, останні новини". Парламент.UA (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 16 January 2026.
- ^ "Тетяна Бережна: хто така та що відомо про політичну кар'єру та особисте життя". Fakty (in Ukrainian). 21 October 2025. Retrieved 16 January 2026.
- ^ a b "Tetyana Berezhna voted in as new Culture Minister". The Kyiv Independent. 21 October 2025. Retrieved 16 January 2026.