The new week in the Cabinet will begin with personnel changes. In particular, it is planned to dismiss ministers Shkarlet and Ryabikin, appoint replacements for them and expand the powers of Deputy Prime Minister Fedorov.
On Saturday, March 18, during a meeting of the faction of the Servant of the People party, deputies of the Verkhovna Rada discussed personnel changes in the government, which will take place next week. Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal announced this on his Telegram channel.
According to Shmyhal, the Ukrainian government will begin the new week with the resignation of the Minister of Strategic Industries Pavel Ryabikin and the Minister of Education and Science Serhiy Shkarlet.
Deputies of the Verkhovna Rada discussed personnel changes in the government
Also next week new ministers will be appointed. Oksen Lisovoy, the current director of the Minor Academy of Sciences, will become the head of the Ministry of Education and Science, and the former head of the board of the Ukrazaliznytsya company, Alexander Kamyshin, will become the minister of strategic industries.
In addition, it is reported that Deputy Prime Minister Mikhail Fedorov will be engaged in a number of other areas, in addition to digitalization. He is waiting for the position – Vice Prime Minister for Innovation, Development of Education, Science and Technology – Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine.
What is known about Oksen Lisov
The future Minister of Education and Science Oksen Lisovoy was born on July 21, 1972 in the family of famous dissidents Vasily and Vera Lisovs. Lisova has a Ph.D. in Philosophical Anthropology and Philosophy of Culture; in 2015 he was awarded the title of Associate Professor.
Since 2010, he has been the director of the National Center “Minor Academy of Sciences of Ukraine”, since 2021 he received the title of Honored Worker of Education of Ukraine.
In 2020, he became one of the initiators of the opening of the first Science Museum in Ukraine. From the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, he went to the front as a volunteer in the 95th separate air assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He took part in the battles in the east in the areas of Slavyansk, Kramatorsk and Druzhkovka.
Recall that on Friday, March 17, it became known that Pavel Ryabikin would leave the post of Minister for Strategic Industries. According to People’s Deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak, Ryabikin may take the post of Ukraine’s ambassador to China.
At the end of February, Focus wrote that Oleksandr Kamyshin, the head of the board of the Ukrazaliznytsya company, announced his resignation and that he would head the office for European integration of the Ukrainian railway.
