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En Ukraine, l’irrésistible ascension d’Arsen Avakov
▻https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2019/01/04/en-ukraine-l-irresistible-ascension-d-arsen-avakov_5405083_3210.html

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Resté prudemment dans l’ombre, le puissant ministre de l’intérieur s’est imposé comme arbitre de la présidentielle de mars et des législatives d’octobre.

Pour Arsen Avakov, l’heure n’est pas encore venue de jouer dans la cour des grands et de défier ouvertement les mastodontes de la politique ukrainienne. A l’heure où Petro Porochenko, le président sortant, ou Ioulia Timochenko, sa grande rivale, se préparent à la grande joute de l’élection présidentielle de mars 2019, le ministre de l’intérieur Avakov reste prudemment dans l’ombre, jalousement accroché à son rôle d’arbitre et, peut-être, de faiseur de rois.

Mais, en quelques années, l’ancien gouverneur de la région orientale de Kharkiv s’est imposé comme un pivot incontournable de la scène politique ukrainienne, un homme d’affaires et de réseaux parfaitement à l’aise dans les arrangements de coulisse qui la caractérisent. Récemment, le magazine Novoe Vremia en a fait le deuxième homme politique le plus influent d’Ukraine, derrière le président Porochenko.

Avakov: Ukraine’s wall along Russian border nearly half complete

Ukraine has built almost half of its 2,300-kilometer wall on the border with Russia, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said on Nov. 24 during his visit to the border checkpoint in Kharkiv Oblast.

“The project has been extended until 2021,” Avakov said. “The budget plan for the 2019 allocates Hr 400 million ($14.4 million) for it. But the head of the Border Guard Service hopes to receive additional funds.”

The Kharkiv section of the Ukrainian-Russian wall has been almost completed with only 20 kilometers left, according to Avakov. The works will continue on the border sections in Sumy and Luhansk oblasts. It includes fortifications with a barbed wire fence, two-meter deep anti-tank trenches, 17-meter-high watchtowers, 40 border checkpoints as well as equipment with motion sensors, border security closed-circuit television (CCTV) and alarm systems.

Overall, 47 percent of the 2,300-kilometer wall has been built, the minister said.

In addition, starting from January, Ukraine has launched the biometric control system for Russian passport holders at all border-crossing checkpoints.

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Former Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who is running for president in the upcoming March presidential elections, joined Avakov on the trip to the border in Kharkiv Oblast on Nov. 24.

The ambitious project known as the European Wall was announced by then-Prime Minister Yatsenyuk in 2014 in the wake of the Russian military intervention in the Donbas. Ukraine lost control over parts of Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts and 400 kilometers that border with Russia. The wall was designed to protect Ukraine from further attacks on its territory as well as to stop illegal flow of weapons from Russia.

In the aftermath of the EuroMaidan Revolution that drove pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych from power on Feb. 22, 2014, Kremlin incited mass anti-government demonstrations in eastern Ukraine and occupied Crimean peninsula. In Donetsk and Luhansk, protesters “declared independence” from Ukraine which escalated into an armed conflict between Ukrainian forces and Kremlin-backed forces. In April 2014, pro-Russian protesters took over the Kharkiv administration and “declared independence from Ukraine” but the Ukrainian government managed to retain control over the region.

The construction of the wall, however, halted due to lack of funding and a corruption scandal.

In 2015-2017, the Border Guard Serviced received Hr 800 mln ($28.8 million) — less than a quarter of the total cost of the project estimated at over Hr 4 billion ($147.6 million).

In November 2017, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau arrested eight people on embezzlement charges. NABU detectives found that the officials of the Border Guard Service in cahoots with local contractors had siphoned off Hr 16.68 million ($600,800) from the Project Wall funds.

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#Ukraine #Russie #murs #frontières #barrières_frontalières

Groysman and new ministers take charge of government
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Ukraine’s parliament voted on April 14 to appoint Volodymyr Groysman as the country’s new prime minister, with 257 lawmakers – 31 votes more than needed – supporting his candidacy.

But the new coalition that was formed to back Groysman and his new government proved unstable even on its first day, immediately raising questions about how long it can last.

Twenty-one lawmakers from factions in the new coalition didn’t support Groysman for prime minister. Ten of them were absent, but 11 lawmakers deliberately didn’t vote.

Groysman’s appointment was passed, though, thanks to the support of 11 independent lawmakers, all 23 lawmakers of the Vidrodzhennya (Renaissance) faction, a group that is associated with oligarch Igor Kolomoisky, and 16 lawmakers from the Volya Narodu (People’s Will) faction.

But just hours later, it took the parliament three attempts to scrape together enough votes to pass the program of Groysman’s Cabinet.
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Meet the Cabinet
Groysman’s Cabinet was appointed with 239 votes in favor.

Several ministers from Yatsenyuk’s Cabinet kept their jobs, including Deputy Prime Minister Hennadiy Zubko, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, Justice Minister Pavlo Petrenko, Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin, Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak, and Minister of Sports and Youth Ihor Zhdanov. Ex-Social Policy Minister Pavlo Petrenko was promoted to deputy prime minister.

The position of health minister remains vacant, as the coalition is yet to agree on a candidate.

Former head of National Bank of Ukraine Stepan Kubiv was appointed economy minister. Deputy Head of President’s Administration Oleksandr Danyuliuk, who previously worked in the Yanukovych administration, is the new minister of finance. He replaced Ukrainian-American Jaresko.

As Groysman made his address as the new prime minister, his promises of hard work were barely audible above opposition chants of “Shame!” Opposition lawmakers were still outraged by the all-in-one vote that gave Groysman the premiership.

“I’m going to show you what it means to govern a country,” Groysman said at the end of his speech, looking irritated by the shouting.

#Ukraine

Ukrainian Minister, Governor in ’Street-Style’ Spat - The New York Times
▻http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/12/15/world/europe/ap-eu-ukraine-reform-tensions.html

At the Monday meeting, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov challenged Mikheil Saakashvili, the former Georgian president who now heads the Odessa region, about Saakashvili allegedly approaching a Russian tycoon about privatizing a big chemical plant.

Saakashvili “broke into hysterics ... I refrained from hitting him — splashed water in his face,” Avakov said on Facebook.

Ukrainian news reports said Saakashvili in turn accused Avakov of financing a private militia through corrupt means and demanded that video of the council session be made public.

Presidential spokesman Svyatoslav Tsegolko said on Facebook that “such street-style skirmishes shame the country.”

The incident highlighted both concerns over endemic corruption and the frequently boisterous politics in Ukraine, where fistfights in the parliament are not uncommon.

Yatsenyuk and allies of Poroshenko, Avakov targeted by corruption investigations
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Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, President Petro Poroshenko’s chief of staff Borys Lozhkin and an ally of Interior Minister Arsen Avakov have been targeted by investigators and whistleblowers in Ukraine and abroad this week.

The reports come as Poroshenko, Yatsenyuk and Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin are accused of failing to investigate corruption among incumbent and former top officials and applying selective justice.

Geoffrey Pyatt, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, went so far on Sept. 24 as to say that “corrupt actors within the Prosecutor General’s Office are making things worse by openly and aggressively undermining reform.”

Kyiv’s Pechersky District Court has ordered the Prosecutor General’s Office to start an investigation against Yatsenyuk on suspicion of getting a $3 million bribe for appointing Volodymyr Ishchuk as chief executive of state-owned Radio Broadcasting, Radio Communications and Television Company, Serhiy Kaplin, a member of the Verkhovna Rada, wrote on Sept. 26.

Un mort et de nombreux policiers blessés devant le Parlement ukrainien
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/europe/article/2015/08/31/forte-explosion-devant-le-parlement-ukrainien-apres-le-vote-d-une-reforme-co

Au moins quatre-vingt-dix policiers ont été blessés par une explosion devant le Parlement ukrainien, à Kiev, lundi 31 août. Arsen Avakov, le ministre de l’intérieur de l’Ukraine, a annoncé qu’un des policiers était mort, après avoir reçu un fragment d’un engin explosif dans le cœur. La déflagration a eu lieu alors que des affrontements avaient lieu entre la police et des manifestants, qui protestaient contre l’adoption en première lecture par les députés d’un projet de loi controversé donnant davantage d’autonomie aux territoires de l’Est prorusse.

Yatsenyuk, suspecting aid fraud, wants re-registration of war refugees
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/yatsenyuk-suspecting-aid-fraud-wants-re-registration-of-war-refugees-39611

People who have fled from Ukraine’s Donbas and Crimea to government-controlled areas should be re-registered to crack down on suspected aid fraud, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk said during a cabinet meeting on Aug. 19.

The prime minister said he was seriously concerned that the 1.4 million figure of officially registered internally displaced persons in Ukraine was greatly overblown.

At the cabinet meeting, Yatsenyuk said Interior Minister Arsen Avakov should check the actual residences of internationally displaced persons against the places they indicated on their certificates of eligibility for social benefits.

“Some of them continue to live on territories occupied by separatists, but come to Ukraine to get state aid. And that’s Hr 884 per person per month. Big money,” said Yatsenyuk.

The prime minister said the state should establish which war refugees actually do require Ukrainian government help, and which are abusing the state’s aid.

1,4 million de réfugiés, combien de fraudeurs ?
C’est vrai que 35 €/mois, c’est beaucoup…

#IDP

Slovak officials seize 130 kilograms of smuggled ‘amber’ at border with Ukraine
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Slovak customs officials confiscated more than 130 kilograms of what they suspect to be undeclared amber at the Vysne Nemecke border crossing from a vehicle driven by a Ukrainian with a Hungarian passenger inside, Slovak newspaper Michalovsky Korzar reported on Aug. 11.
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Ukrainian Interior Ministry Arsen Avakov estimates the size of the nation’s black market for amber to be $500 million. Authorities say the gemstones are mostly extracted in the northern areas of Zhytomyr, Rivne and Volyn oblasts in a pine forest range known as Polissya.

Some 150-300 tons of amber is extracted yearly in Ukraine, of which only 3-4 tons is mined legally, according to Ukraine’s environmental ministry.

On Aug. 4 a law enforcement task force seized 2.6 tons of allegedly illegally mined amber in Rivne Oblast preliminarily valued at $3 million, Avakov stated on his Facebook page.

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More government-linked Twitter accounts hacked and attacked
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More Twitter accounts linked to the Ukrainian government came under attack on July 14, less than a day after the country’s National Security and Defense Council’s account started tweeting that it had been taken over by an ultranationalist group.

The personal Twitter account of Interior Minister Arsen Avakov appeared to have been hacked shortly after noon on July 14, with “Avakov” tweeting that his account was now under the control of the Right Sector group.

“Arsen: Do you remember Sashko Biliy?” read one tweet, referring to a far-right Ukrainian nationalist shot dead by police near the town of Rivne last year.

Another tweet claimed Avakov was providing political cover for smuggling in Kharkiv oblast.

A similar message had appeared on the Twitter account of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council the previous day, with the account going on to tweet spurious messages, among them ones calling for Avakov’s resignation, and for police officers in Mukavcheve to be arrested.

À noter que la première attaque sur le Conseil national de sécurité et de défense avait été attribuée aux méchants trolls poutiniens. Apparemment, aujourd’hui l’attribution à Secteur Droit va de soi.

Conflict between Right Sector and government escalates
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Representatives of the Right Sector said on July 12 that it was withdrawing some of its fighters from the war zone as the tense standoff between the nationalist group and the authorities escalated.

Observers have linked the conflict to cigarette smuggling in Zakarpattya Oblast, while the Right Sector describes the standoff as part of the government’s crackdown on volunteer units.

Chorny, commander of the fifth battalion of the Right Sector’s Ukrainian Volunteer Corps, and Dmytro Savchenko, a spokesman for the right-wing group, said fighters of the fifth battalion were withdrawing from the war zone. Savchenko said they would take part in a Right Sector protest in Kyiv, though he added they were not going there “with assault rifles and machine guns.”

The statements were contradicted by Alla Megel, head of the corps’ information department, and Andrei Sharaskin, the corps’ spokesman. They told the censor.net.ua news site that the unit’s fighters were staying on the front line.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) demanded that a group of armed Right Sector activists near the city of Mukacheve in Zakarpattya Oblast lay down their weapons. The SBU said it would start arresting the activists if they refused to be disarmed.
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Following the shootout, the Right Sector activists retreated to the village of Lavky near Mukacheve and then went along a mountain ridge towards the town of Perechyn and Velyky Berezny District, Mustafa Nayyem, a lawmaker from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, wrote on Facebook on July 12. Right Sector leader Dmytro Yarosh arrived in Mukacheve on the same day in an effort to settle the conflict.

President Petro Poroshenko, SBU Chief Vasyl Hrytsak and Interior Minister Arsen Avakov are currently holding negotiations with Yarosh, Nayyem said.

Lawyer previously accused of large-scale fraud appointed to fight corruption
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The Interior Ministry has appointed a woman with a history of aiding corrupt figures to be in charge of recovering stolen assets on behalf of the Nation’s Anti-Corruption Bureau.

Olena Tyshchenko, a lawyer who previously represented the interests of Kazakh-banker-turned-fugitive Mukhtar Ablyazov, has been chosen to head the bureau’s department on recovering Ukrainian assets illegally moved overseas.

Interior Minister Arsen Avakov announced the appointment on July 7, praising Tyshchenko as a “remarkable individual” with vast professional experience.

But lawmaker Serhiy Leshchenko soon took to Facebook to slam Avakov’s decision, pointing out that while Avakov had credited Tyshchenko with nine years of experience in the Verkhovna Rada’s committee on corruption, she had actually only worked for less than a year – and for the rest of the time she hadn’t even been in the country.

She was, however, visiting her fugitive boss in France and London, according to the French authorities, not to mention spending time in a Russian jail on suspicion of large-scale fraud, according to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry and Tyshchenko herself — although she says she was jailed for political reasons.

“In other words, out of nine years of service to the state, Tyshchenko spent eight years not serving the state at all, but in London, France and in a Moscow detention facility. And now she will be responsible for cooperating with Western security services in recovering stolen assets. Do you not find that ridiculous?” Leshchenko wrote.

Tyshchenko was jailed by the Russian authorities in the fall of 2013 on suspicion of large-scale fraud and the laundering of more than $3.3 billion in illegally obtained funds. The allegations against her stemmed from her time representing Ablyazov, the former head of Kazakhstan’s BTA Bank.

#Abliazov #arnaque_kazakhe

Ukraine : arrestation en Conseil des ministres : la totale !

• arrestation (à grand spectacle) sans mandat
• refus de délivrer a posteriori un mandat pour faute de preuves
• c’est pas grave, dit le Ministre de l’intérieur, on va changer de procureur
• et d’ailleurs, si le juge ne les a pas arrêtés, c’est parce qu’il attend des charges encore plus graves

Sinistres #GUIGNOLS !!!

Court rejects arrest warrants for officials detained during Cabinet meeting
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Kyiv’s Pechersk District Court on March 27 ruled not to issue arrest warrants for Serhiy Bochkovsky, former head of Ukraine’s State Emergency Service, and his former first deputy Vasyl Stoyetsky in a high-profile corruption case.

The two high-ranking officials were detained on March 25 during a Cabinet meeting that was broadcast live on television on suspicion of procuring fuel for the agency at inflated prices through offshore companies they allegedly control.
The government portrayed the arrests as part of a genuine crackdown on corruption. Skeptics dismissed it as a publicity stunt that wouldn’t lead to successful prosecution, while some critics doubted the legitimacy of the arrests.
Prosecutor Andriy Shevchenko had revoked his request to put them under arrest. He told journalists on March 27 that there was no “direct evidence” proving that Bochkovsky committed a crime. Unless arrest warrants are issued later, Bochkovsky and Stoyetsky will be released at about 12 p.m. on March 28.
Anton Gerashchenko, a lawmaker from the People’s Front party and a former advisor to the interior minister, wrote on Facebook that the case will be transferred to another prosecutor, citing a conversation he had with Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin.

Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, who said he has also spoken with Shokin, said in a Facebook post that the request for the officials’ arrest had been revoked because the Prosecutor General’s Office needed to add more charges. Another motion to place them under arrest will be submitted to a court on the morning of March 28, Avakov added.
They are currently suspected of illegally opening foreign currency accounts abroad.
“Neither Bochkovsky nor Stoyetsky have a chance to be released by the Prosecutor General’s Office and to have charges dropped against them,” Avakov said. “Proofs of their corrupt activities are persuasive.”
Daryna Kalenyuk, executive director of the Anti-Corruption Action Center, a non-profit group in Kyiv, dismissed Bochkovsky’s arrest as a show.
“(The court didn’t authorize his arrest) because he was detained as part of a public relations stunt,” she told the Kyiv Post. “I think this show will go on, and they’ll try to find a scapegoat. Our judges are not saints but media pressure and political pressure on judges is not the right way to solve such problems.”
Earlier this week Vitaly Shabunin, head of the Anti-Corruption Action Center’s management board, doubted the legitimacy of Bochkovsky’s detention on March 25. He said that the police cannot detain suspects without a judge’s approval unless they are caught red-handed or if evidence implicating a suspect emerges immediately after a crime is committed.
Meanwhile, Zoryan Shkiryak, who replaced Bochkovsky as head of the State Emergency Service, said on March 27 that he had signed off on the dismissal of about 300 employees of the service and announced the beginning of “total lustration” there.

Ukraine Conflict Flares as Government Fights ‘Oligarch’ Crisis - Bloomberg Business
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Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said his government would crack down on “total corruption and smuggling,” and the cabinet gave private security services 24 hours to disarm after a group of men seized state-controlled oil company Ukrnafta.
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Ukraine’s government also vowed to tackle domestic dissent. Interior Minister Arsen Avakov announced tighter gun-control measures and referred specifically to Dnipropetrovsk Governor Igor Kolomoisky, who has served as a board member at Ukrnafta, Ukraine’s richest man Rinat Akhmetov, second-wealthiest Viktor Pinchuk, and other tycoons.
“A scenario of oligarch-supported political crisis will not pass,” Yatsenyuk, who dismissed the first deputy head of the fiscal service in charge of the tax police and the deputy head of the customs service on Monday, said during a government meeting. “We will not let anyone rob the country , which is at war.”
State Security Service chief Valentyn Nalyvaychenko said on Monday that Dnipropetrovsk regional government officials are financing armed gangs and threatening investigators.

Following his comments, four lawmakers in President Petro Poroshenko’s party left the parliamentary faction, saying that discrediting the regional administration was a violation of the ruling coalition pact, news service Interfax reported.

Non seulement, #Mustang_Wanted ne sera pas extradé vers la Russie,…

Kyiv won’t extradite roofer who painted star on Moscow skyscraper in Ukrainian flag colors
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/kyiv-wont-extradite-roofer-who-painted-star-on-moscow-skyscraper-in-ukrain

Ukraine has received an Interpol request for extraditing Hryhoriy Kyrylenko, a roofer known by the nickname Mustang Wanted, to Russia but will decline it, Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said.

… mais il se fait remettre un pistolet personnalisé par le ministre de l’Intérieur.

Climber wanted in Russia receives gun from Ukraine Interior Minister
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Ukrainian extreme climber Grygoriy, who is better known by his pseudonym “Mustang Wanted” or simply “Mustang” was awarded with a personalized pistol for his exploit of painting a half of a yellow star atop a building in Moscow blue to represent the colors of the Ukrainian flag.

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(j’imagine que c’est un Colt Mustang)

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Il a escaladé le gratte-ciel moscovite dans la nuit du 19 au 20 août.

Protester Raises Ukraine Flag over Moscow’s Stalinist Spire
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This Wednesday morning, August 20th, as the sun lit up the spires of bombastic Stalin-era high-rises in the heart of Russia’s capital, residents of a historical downtown district noticed a large flag of Ukraine fluttering over one such spire, atop a large golden star.

The top of the star had also been repainted light-blue to resemble the Ukrainian flag (the original hammer and sickle emblem in the middle remained unharmed, though). A resident of a nearby building was able to catch the perpetrator on camera as the man completed his stunt by jumping off the 560 foot tall spire with a parachute and disappearing in the pre-dawn emptiness of the city.

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Le selfie de l’auteur sur les lieux, c’est celui-ci

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À la suite de quoi, il a sauté en parachute.
La découverte de son forfait a entrainé une chasse à l’homme en tenue d’escalade/base jump dans les rues de Moscou, l’arrestation de 4 jeunes base jumpers russes, le tout aboutissant à la revendication de l’acte par l’intéressé.

Court rules to free riot police commander suspected in of shooting at Maidan activists in Kyiv
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An investigating judge of Pechersky District Court of Kyiv has released from custody the commander of a special purpose company of the Berkut riot police force, who was charged with shooting at 39 protesters on Instytutska Street in Kyiv, the Prosecutor General’s Office plans to appeal the decision.

J’imagine que les charges contre lui ne sont pas aussi évidentes qu’aimeraient le croire ceux qui connaissent déjà les responsables des tirs de Maïdan sans qu’il y ait besoin d’enquête…

Manifs et actions violentes de l’extrême-droite probables.

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Il était détenu depuis le 3 avril (infra, 2 articles de cette date).

Law enforcement officers with yellow strips at Instytutska Street were from Berkut special subdivision – they killed 17 people : UNIAN news
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According to an UNIAN correspondent, Interior Minister of Ukraine Arsen Avakov said this at press conference concerning the preliminary results of investigation of killing people in Kyiv on February 18-20, 2014.

“According to our calculations, 17 people perished during the shooting at Instytutska Street, from side of October palace”, - noted Avakov.

He added that a special company of the Berkut with yellow strips on sleeves under guidance of major Dmytro Sadovnik worked at Instytutska Street, from side of October palace.

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Ukranian News - Law-Enforcers Detain 3 Berkut Staff Suspected Of February 20 Execution Of People In Instytutska Street In Kyiv
▻http://un.ua/eng/article/502118.html

The Prosecutor-General’s Office, Security Service of Ukraine, and the Internal Affairs Ministry officers have detained three staff of the Berkut special force on suspicion of execution of people in Instytutska Street in Kyiv on February 20, acting Prosecutor General Oleh Makhnytskyi has told Ukrainian News Agency.
The detained persons are from the Berkut Kyiv special company, the so called “black company.”
Data from the PGO, the snipers who were shooting at people from Hotel Ukraina are from this very Berkut’s “black company.”
On April 2 law-enforcers were conducting a special-forces raid, large-scale prompt investigative actions, and opened criminal proceedings.
Thanks to the measures they detained these Berkut elements who are immediately accused of murder.

Les médias annoncent une incursion de tanks russes en Ukraine
▻http://www.brujitafr.fr/article-les-medias-annoncent-une-incursion-de-tanks-russes-en-ukraine-1238

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Le président ukrainien a fait le plein d’appuis, jeudi, en faveur de son plan visant à mettre fin aux combats dans l’est du pays, lors de discussions téléphoniques avec des leaders américain, russe et allemand, alors même qu’il condamnait ce que des responsables ukrainiens qualifient d’incursion de véhicules blindés provenant de Russie. Selon le ministre ukrainien de l’Intérieur, Arsen Avakov, trois chars ont franchi la frontière en compagnie d’autres véhicules blindés originaires de Russie, et ont été attaqués par des forces militaires combattant les séparatistes prorusses. La Russie a nié avoir dépêché des troupes et de l’équipement en Ukraine, décrivant les citoyens russes s’étant joints aux séparatistes armés comme des « volontaires ». Impossible de confirmer de façon (...)

#CONFLICTS_DANS_LE_MONDE

En fait, Muzychko, poursuivi par la police ukrainienne s’est accidentellement tiré une balle dans le cœur…

ITAR-TASS : World - Right Sector activist Muzychko accidentally shot himself — Ukraine’s vice-chief prosecutor
▻http://en.itar-tass.com/world/729068

One of the leaders of the far-right extremist organization Right Sector, Oleksandr Muzychko (also known as Sashko Bily) accidentally shot himself when offering resistance to police officers that were detaining him.
Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine Alexei Baganets made this statement at a session of interim investigative commission of the Verkhovna Rada that was engaged in investigating the circumstances of Muzychko’s death.
Muzychko’s body with gunshot wounds near the heart was found in the night on March 25 near Barmaki village not far from the city of Rivne. On the same day, the Interior Ministry stated that he was fatally wounded by the servicemen of special task unit Sokol during a raid aimed at his detention in the Rivne region.

Bizarrement, ses petits camarades du Secteur Droit ne semblent pas convaincus…

The Right Sector claims that Muzychko “was intentionally shot” by the members of the special task unit Sokol and believe that parliament-appointed Interior Minister Arsen Avakov is guilty. The Right Sector demanded Avakov’s immediate resignation and arrest of everyone involved in the radical’s death.

La Voix de la Russie a ses propres sources d’information : les Cyber Berkouts qui auraient piraté le compte GMail d’Andreï Avakov, le ministre de l’Intérieur qui prouverait (?) que le meurtre de Muzychko était planifié…

Avakov’s letters throwing light on murder of Muzychko unveiled – Cyber Berkut hackers group - News - World - The Voice of Russia : News, Breaking news, Politics, Economics, Business, Russia, International current events, Expert opinion, podcasts, Video
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According to the anonymous Cyber Berkut Group, the letters offer proof that the murder of Alexander Muzychko, who was shot down near Rovno this March, was planned by Avakov, and as an act of revenge for his death the Berkut soldiers were made answerable.

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La retranscription de la copie d’écran est fournie ici ▻http://www.cyber-berkut.org/traitors/0012.php (l’image reproduit la fin) ne (me) permet pas de conclure quoi que ce soit…

Offensives prorusses en Ukraine : Kiev contre-attaque - Libération
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« Une opération antiterroriste a débuté à Slaviansk », une des villes de l’Est de l’Ukraine visées samedi par les attaques de groupes armés prorusses, a annoncé sur sa page Facebook Arsen Avakov, ministre de l’Intérieur du gouvernement intérimaire.

Ces forces, bien équipées et organisées mais ne portant aucun insigne et présentées comme des milices locales, y avaient pris le contrôle des bâtiments de la police et des services de sécurité. « Des unités de toutes les forces du pays participent. Que Dieu soit avec nous », a écrit le ministre sur sa page Facebook, avant de recommander un peu plus tard aux habitants de « ne pas sortir et se tenir éloignés des fenêtres ». Des hélicoptère survolaient la ville à basse altitude, a constaté un photographe de l’AFP sur place. Une épaisse colonne de fumée noire s’élevait mais le photographe n’a entendu ni tirs ni explosions.

Va falloir leur envoyer des conseillers en communication aux ukrainiens de l’est. Genre évoquer des couleurs et y accoler le mot « révolution ». Révolution bleue, rose, verte... Peut-être qu’on leur accolerait moins facilement le mot « terroriste » dans nos journaux ?

Le nationaliste ukrainien Mouzytchko abattu, Secteur droit promet la vendetta
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Les membres du Secteur droit demandent la démission de l’actuel ministre ukrainien de l’intérieur Arsen Avakov.The post Le nationaliste ukrainien Mouzytchko abattu, Secteur droit promet la vendetta appeared first on Le Courrier de Russie.

BBC News - Ukraine far-right leader Muzychko dies ’in police raid’
▻http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26729273

Oleksandr Muzychko, better known as Sashko Bily, died in a shoot-out with police in a cafe in Rivne in western Ukraine, the interior ministry said.

He was a leader of Right Sector, a far-right group which was prominent in the recent anti-government protests.

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Oleksandr Muzychko - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Oleksandr Ivanovych Muzychko (Ukrainian: Олександр Іванович Музичко, 19 September 1962 – 24 March 2014), also known under the nickname Sashko Bily (Сашко Білий), was a Ukrainian political activist, a member of UNA-UNSO and coordinator of Right Sector in Western Ukraine. He fought in the First Chechen War on Chechen side.
During the First Chechen War he led the UNA-UNSO “Viking” group. In 1995 Muzychko was convicted in causing a heavy bodily harm to an individual. In 1997 he attempted to kill one of the UNA-UNSO members in Kiev. In 2003 Muzychko was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison for racketeering and kidnapping.

#Volhynie

Ukraine : Témoignages de combattants des forces spéciales Berkout
▻http://www.lecourrierderussie.com/2014/03/ukraine-berkout

Fin février, le ministre ukrainien de l’intérieur par intérim Arsen Avakov a signé un décret sur la dissolution des forces spéciales Berkout.The post Ukraine : Témoignages de combattants des forces spéciales Berkout appeared first on Le Courrier de Russie.