Olena Ivanovska was appointed as the State Language Protection Commissioner on July 15 during a Government meeting by an open ranked vote.
Olena Ivanovska is a Doctor of Philology, Professor, and lecturer at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. She is the author of nearly 100 scholarly works, textbooks, manuals, and curricula on the methodology of teaching folklore, ethnopedagogy, Ukrainian ethnography, customary law, Ukrainian folk art, and the theory of folklore.