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Arakhamiya: Avakov might be appointed deputy prime minister

Arsen Avakov, Ukraine’s controversial former interior minister, might get back to the country’s government in the nearest months, according to David …
Illia Ponomarenko

Parliament appoints new interior minister

Denys Monastyrsky became Ukraine’s new interior minister on July 16. The parliament approved Monastyrsky’s candidacy with 271 votes, most of them from …
Olga Rudenko

‘Almighty’ Arsen Avakov leaves interior ministry after 7.5 years

In February 2014, low-key politician Arsen Avakov became the interior minister in the temporary government created during the EuroMaidan …
Oleksiy Sorokin

Parliament supports Avakov’s resignation

The Verkhovna Rada on July 15 supported the resignation of Interior Minister Arsen Avakov. Avakov served as interior minister for 7.5 years, since …
Olga Rudenko

Ukraine Digest: July 14

To receive Ukraine’s Digest as a newsletter six times a week, subscribe here for free. What we’re watchingWednesday, July 14: Forum “Ukraine 30. …
Liliane Bivings

Authorities respond to radical protests with arrests of activists

Two weeks later, the March 20 protest outside the presidential administration is still in the headlines in Ukraine. Hundreds of people protested near …
Oleksiy Sorokin

Interior Minister Avakov: Poroshenko protected Medvedchuk from sanctions more than once

Interior Minister Arsen Avakov accused ex-President Petro Poroshenko of protecting pro-Kremlin politicians for personal gain. In an interview with …
Oleksiy Sorokin

Lawyers accuse police of falsifying criminal case to save Zelensky’s deputy chief of staff  

Ex-lawmaker Maksym Mykytas’ lawyers on Dec. 30 accused police of falsifying evidence in a criminal case to make him withdraw his testimony against …
Oleg Sukhov

Controversial judge Vovk placed on wanted list, second time in 3 months

One of Ukraine’s most controversial judges, Pavlo Vovk, the head of the Kyiv Administrative District Court, was placed on the wanted list – again.  On …
Oleksiy Sorokin

Examinations of Kaharlyk police officers’ case finished, to be submitted to court soon

Almost all the examinations assigned in the case of police officers in Kaharlyk (Kyiv region) have been ended, and the case materials will be …
Interfax-Ukraine

Police detain suspect in arson attack against investigative journalists

Ukrainian law enforcement has arrested a man suspected of setting fire to the car used by the journalists of Schemes, the investigative unit of Radio …
Alexander Query

Ukraine’s Cabinet proposes ditching domestic passport booklets

During a Cabinet meeting on Aug. 12, Ukrainian ministers supported a bill that proposes gradually abolishing domestic booklet passports, the press …
Maliek Banat

Suspect in murder of journalist Sheremet released to house arrest

Pediatric surgeon Yulia Kuzmenko, a suspect in the car bombing that killed Belarusian journalist Pavel Sheremet in 2016, has been released from a …
Anna Myroniuk

Law enforcement detains armed man who took 13 hostage in Lutsk

After a 12-hour standoff, Ukrainian law enforcement late on July 21 detained a terrorist who had held 13 people hostage in a bus in Lutsk, a city of …
Matthew Kupfer
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Oleksiy Sorokin

Parliament puts Shmyhal government on notice as pressure builds to remove Avakov

The Verkhovna Rada has failed to muster the votes needed to pass an action plan that would grant the government of Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal a year …
Daria Shulzhenko

Shmyhal will not fire scandalous Interior Minister Avakov

Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal has no intention of dismissing Arsen Avakov, the scandalous Minister of Internal Affairs, he said on June 11 at …
Anna Myroniuk

Zelensky: Poroshenko is an ‘experienced manipulator’

In early June, Ukrainska Pravda news outlet accompanied President Volodymyr Zelensky on his visit to Khmelnytsky Oblast. On June 11, the news outlet …
Oleksiy Sorokin

SBI investigating into 5,000 criminal cases on abusive treatment by law enforcers

The State Bureau of Investigations (SBI) is investigating into around 5,000 criminal cases on abusive treatment by law enforcers, including that on …
Interfax-Ukraine
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