“Eternal” Minister of Interior Avakov leaves. Ukraine’s police problems stay.
On 15 July, a historic vote for the resignation of the Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov took…
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Why the influence of Arsen Avakov in Ukraine will grow
ACT II – INSIGHT: RETAINING POWER BY ALL MEANS Avakov as beneficiary of the policy shift? President Zelenskyy’s…
Avakov: Master of the People, Servant of the Siloviki
ACT I – LOOKING BACK: ELECTION CAMPAIGNS AND POWER DUALISM Avakov’s political options During the presidential campaign [of…
Minister Avakov keeps dodging political responsibility for heinous police crimes
The chronic lawlessness within police forces has served as a trigger for society’s outrage and led to civil…
Why can’t Ukraine just get rid of its oligarchs?
Whence came the oligarchs? To answer why the oligarchs are so omnipresent in Ukrainian life, one has to…
Ukraine’s new Cabinet: new faces, merged ministries, and the immortal Avakov
Instead of 20 ministries in the previous Cabinet headed by Groysman, the government headed by new Prime Minister…
Do Ukraine’s right-wing extremist groups have a chance of derailing presidential elections?
For the 2019 presidential elections, the Central Election Commission registered 139 Ukrainian NGOs monitoring the election process, a…
Attacks on civic activists in Ukraine reaching critical level, encouraged by unreformed police
Kateryna Handziuk had just come out of her apartment when an unknown attacker splashed a litre of sulfuric…
Ukrainian politicians denounce Trump’s readiness to legitimize Putin’s Crimean anschluss
Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov and former Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk have denounced the declaration by Donald…
Yanukovych’s cronies still free, possessing stolen millions
Two years after tragic events at Euromaidan and the escape of disgraced president Victor Yanukovych, Ukraine is changing,…
How I stopped worrying and learned to love Ukraine’s system
People in Ukraine and elsewhere like to decry the ‘system’ that exists in Ukraine, that Maidan apparently stood…
Five things that the latest fight between Ukrainian officials tells about Ukraine
Avakov threw a glass with water at Saakashvili when the ex-Georgian president called him a “thief” after a…
Ukrainian volunteer fighters are facing life in jail in pro-Russian journalist murder case
On 16 April 2015 journalist and writer Oles Buzyna was shot dead at the entrance of his home…
Ukraine’s police chief says parliament grenade attack “first stage of chain of acts of terror”
On August 31, clashes in front of the Ukrainian parliament due to the controversial constitutional amendments turned deadly when…
Lviv activist wins court case vs Minister Avakov
A Lviv court has ruled that the speech made in Russian by Arsen Avakov, Ukraine’s Minister of Internal…
SBU suspects battalion commander in high-profile murder plot
Security Service of Ukraine has told in a press-release of a sprawling assasination plot targeting key government officials uncovered jointly with…
Lviv resident sues Minister Avakov for official speech in Russian
The court will convene at the Lviv Regional Administrative Court on September 3. Svyatoslav Litynsky, lecturer at the…
Preliminary naming of Buzina’s “murderers” replaces legal practice with “media justice”
Naming suspects as “killers” in media, which took place in the Buzina case, can provoke a very dangerous…
How cronyism exploits Ukrainian neo-Nazis
Ukraine’s early presidential and parliamentary elections earlier this year proved to be disastrous for the Ukrainian party-political far…
Avakov: Russian society will not survive shock of seeing so many victims if Russia invades Ukraine
Arsen Avakov, Interior Minister of Ukraine, stated that there were about seven thousand Russian soldiers stationed in terrorist-controlled…