Yury Krysin admits taking part in the fatal attack on journalist Viacheslav Veremiy during EuroMaidan and has been convicted of numerous other violent crimes. Yet “Ukrainian judges have only to see him and they’re seized by a burning desire to release him from custody”. Such a “magic” effect is how civic activist Maria Tomak describes Krysin’s latest success in avoiding custody. There are, unfortunately, grounds for suspecting that the same ‘magic’ can influence Ukrainian prosecutors as well, and for fearing that Krysin is being protected by high-ranking officers in the police force.
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People commemorate those protesters of the EuroMaidan Revolution who were killed three years ago, at an event on Independence Square in central Kyiv on Feb. 20.
