(MENAFN - UkrinForm) The Center for Countering Disinformation will start operating in Ukraine in March, according to Minister of Culture and Information Policy Oleksandr Tkachenko. 'Our first initiative concerns the creation of a center for counteracting disinformation, which will primarily, in cooperation with other Ukrainian organizations, oppose Russian propaganda. Now the selection of the team is underway and the concept is being approved. We hope that this center will start working in March, Tkachenko said at the opening of the international online seminar "Responding to Disinformation: European Practices and Standards", an Ukrinform correspondent reports. According to Tkachenko, the ministry is cooperating with Latvian colleagues in the field of strategic communications, as well as with a similar center in the European Union and Finland.