Twelve publishers have been fined a total of UAH 1.896 million for violating the terms of delivery of textbooks to general secondary education institutions in 2025, according to the Institute for the Modernisation of Education Content of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.
According to the Institute’s response to a request from the agency ‘Interfax-Ukraine’, twelve publishers violated the deadlines for delivering textbooks to general secondary education institutions in 2025.
In this regard, these publishers have been fined for violating the terms of the contract, in particular: Abetka LLC must pay a fine of 15,063 hryvnias; Alaton Publishing House LLC – 323,987 hryvnias; Aston LLC – UAH 142,505; Atlant Publishing House LLC – UAH 140; Bukrek MPP – UAH 2,189; Genesis LLC – UAH 684,832; TO ‘Gymnasium’ LLC – 141,936 UAH; ‘Methodika Publishing’ LLC – 528 UAH; ‘Educational Book – Bohdan’ Publishing House LLC – 7,202 UAH; ‘UOVC ’ORION” LLC – 561,157 UAH; Rannok Publishing House LLC – 4,916 UAH; Shkolyar Educational and Publishing Centre LLC – 12,455 UAH.
As reported, on 5 September 2025, the Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine, Oksen Lisovyi, stated that all planned textbooks would be accepted by schools by 15 September. However, as of 15 September, more than 10% of the planned textbooks had still not been delivered to schools.
On 18 September 2025, the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Education, Science and Innovation, as in the previous year, recognised the work of the Ministry of Education in providing schools with textbooks as unsatisfactory and acknowledged that the new mechanism for delivering textbooks needed urgent refinement.
On 25 September 2025, Deputy Minister of Education and Science Nadiya Kuzmychova announced that publishers who failed to deliver textbooks to schools on time would pay millions in penalties. She also expressed hope that the issue of textbook delivery would be resolved by the end of September.
On 14 November 2025, according to data from the dashboard of the Ministry of Education’s Institute of Educational Analytics, 100% of the planned textbooks had been delivered to schools.
At the end of December 2025, the Ministry of Education announced that in 2026 Ukraine would switch to a two-year cycle for the creation of textbooks and would continue to implement a model of delivering textbooks from publishers directly to schools.
The K.Fund Media publishing house has decided to discontinue its media project dedicated to entrepreneurship and books about business from November 1, 2018. The management is researching the media market and is negotiating with potential partners to restart the project in a new format. The archive of articles will be available to the public at kfund-media.com.
The K.Fund Media platform was launched in March 2017. Its mission was to open new opportunities in the fields of education and entrepreneurship in Ukraine and abroad. The team has developed about 10 new formats for popularizing information materials. Every month, K.Fund Media’s website had up to 200,000 visitors. The platform is represented in social media with over 30,000 subscribers in total.
Since then, authors working under the project have written hundreds of articles on entrepreneurship and management, about 200 reviews of the world’s best-selling books about business, more than 100 success stories of Ukrainians. Materials for self-education, which were provided by experts on various issues, were published on a regular basis. Special attention was paid to the activities of business schools operating in Ukraine.
“The project has accomplished its mission, it has made its contribution to the development of the business environment and leadership in Ukraine, has created added value for readers. It is also very valuable for me that the platform has been working as an independent media, fully complying with high-quality journalism standards. I thank the investor of the project, Vasyl Khmelnytsky, for extensive support and I’m grateful to the editorial staff for excellent work. Now we are hammering out a model and looking for partners to re-launch the platform in a new format,” Director of K.Fund Media Dmytro Zvieriev has said.
K.Fund Media set itself the goal of interacting with thinking readers, engaging such iconic leaders and thinkers as world-famous Swedish economist, professor of the Stockholm School of Economics Kjell Nordström, Vice President of KAIST Business School in Seoul, ex-adviser to Samsung Jo Sung Park, Country Director for Ukraine at Google Dmytro Sholomko, General Manager for Central and Eastern Europe at Airbnb Andrew Verbitsky, Goldratt Research Lab CEO Alan Barnard, Senior Coach at the University of Sheffield, Nikos Lambridis, and many others.
“K.Fund Media has become a successful project. We have created an extensive database of materials that provide various solutions to problems related to life and work. The world is changing dynamically; nevertheless, most of the texts will continue to be relevant, and our readers will be able to revisit them repeatedly to find answers to their questions. I am very grateful to everyone involved for the enthusiasm and atmosphere in which this project was created,” Editor-in-Chief of K.Fund Media Darya Kutetskaya has said.
The project was founded by Vasyl Khmelnytsky’s K.Fund. In addition to managing the information platform, K.Fund Media also publishes the world’s best-selling books in Ukrainian about economics, education, self-development and modern science as part of the K.Fund Books project.
