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Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov claims that MP from the Opposition Bloc and former head of Viktor Yanukovych’s presidential administration Serhiy Lyovochkin is behind the dispersal of protesters on Kyiv’s Maidan Nezalezhnosti, or Independence Square, late in 2014, according to TV Channel 112 Ukraine.

“Lyovochkin should have been in jail, not in parliament, because he is the mastermind behind the Maidan dispersals,” Avakov said, answering a question during a press conference in Severodonetsk, Luhansk region, where he was opening a new service center, Channel 112 Ukraine reported.

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