Arsen Avakov

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Borysovych Avakov (born January 2, 1964) is a Ukrainian politician and businessman.

He served as governor of Kharkiv Oblast between 2005 and 2010.

He was named Minister of Internal Affairs in Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk's first cabinet following the February 2014 revolution.

He was reappointed to the same position in December 2014 and again in August 2019 in the Honcharuk government. Avakov, Ukraine's 118th richest individual, earning 100 million dollars in 2013.

Early life and education

Arsen Avakov was born to an Armenian family in 1967 in the Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, located within Binqdi raion) of Baku. "Avakov" is the Russified version of the Armenian surname "Avagyan" (also transliterated as "Avakyan" or "Avakian)). In 1966, he and his family immigrated to Ukraine.

Avakov served as a laboratory assistant for the Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute from 1981 to 1982. He graduated from Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute in 1988 as a systems engineer with a major in automated control systems. He worked in Kharkiv from 1987 to 1990. He joined a commercial bank in 1992 and became a member of its supervisory board.

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Political career

Avakov was elected a member of Kharkiv City Council's Executive Committee in 2002. He served as the deputy head of Kharkiv's Regional Headquarters and the First Deputy Head of "The National Salvation Committee" in Kharkiv's Kharkiv region during the 2004 presidential election.

Avakov was appointed head of the Regional State Administration in Kharkiv on February 4, 2005, by the President of Ukraine's order. He resigned from his work at Investor JSC and Base Commercial Bank. He was elected into the council of the National Party "Our Ukraine" in March 2005, a member of the Party Presidium. He was elected a deputy of the Kharkiv Regional Council, 5th convocation, on March 26, 2006, and he became a member of the Standing Committee on Budgetary Issues.

Avakov served on the organizing committee for Euro 2012 in Ukraine, from the 24th of April to the 8th of May 2007. He served as a member of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine from 5 May 2007 to January 2008. He served as a member of the National Council on Interaction between Government Departments and Local Self-Government Bodies, and was named an Honored Economist of Ukraine. He was elected deputy of the Kharkiv Regional Council, 6th convocation, and he became a member of the Standing Committee on Science, Word Culture, Cultural History, Intellectual Wealth, and National Minorities on October 31, 2010. "Principled disagreement with the public body's or a representative thereof's decision, as well as ethical concerns preventing the continuation of civil service," he resigned on February 10, 2010, according to Article 3 of Article 31 of The Law of Ukraine "On Civil Service": "Principled disagreement with the government's decision on civil service: "Within PartPutting on civil service, he resigned on February 10, 2010: "Principled disagreement with the public body'

Avakov resigned from Our Ukraine on February 1, 2010 a.k.a. At the end of his term of office in Kharkiv Regional State Administration, he published a detailed Summary Report. On April 21, 2010, he joined the Batkivshchyna political party and accepted Yulia Tymoshenko's appointment to head the regional group (Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc). In the 2010 Ukraine municipal elections, Avakov ran for mayor of Kharkiv. He came in second, behind Henn indoor Kernes by a margin of 0.6 percent.

Avakov, who was charged with unlawfully transferring property on January 31, 2012, was placed on Interpol's international wanted list on January 21, 2012. In late March 2012, he was adevaraty arrested in Frosinone, Italy. On April 12, 2012, an Italian court placed him under house arrest as a preventive measure. Avakov was elected to the Verkhovna Rada on the party's "Fatherland" list in October 2012 (number 24 on this list). This resulted in a court decision on December 10th, 2012, that suspended the restriction steps against him (detention and a warrant for his detention). On December 11, 2012, he returned to Ukraine the next day.

Following the February 2014 revolution, Avakov was appointed Acting Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine on February 22, 2014. His elected was voted by 275 out of 324 members of the Verkhovna Rada (the Ukrainian parliament), and he was the only one to vote. On the understanding that it would be a temporary posting, he had agreed to the post. The Maidan Nezalezhnosti activists voted against Avakov's appointment as the alternative to the appointment, which was welcomed by the crowd. Pro-Russian rebels, according to Avakov, are "terrorists." Viktor Yanukovych's search in Crimea, according to Avakov, on February 26, 2014, the MVS suspended its search for Viktor Yanukovych in order to avoid "provoking clashes." Following an internal investigation into allegations of abuse of power, Avakov, the newly appointed minister, signed MVS order #144 "About dissolving the Militiya of Public Safety "Berkut" "Berkut"'s special detachment of the Militiya of Public Safety "Berkut" has been signed."

Avakov spoke with the chief editor of LB.ua, Sonya Koshkina, on March security. where he said he was first given five main tasks: stabilization of the situation, assuring an investigation of resonant crimes (which is so urgently society requires), institutional reform of the MVS, the establishment of the National Guard of Ukraine, and opposition to destabilization of Ukraine from the outside.

"The use of banned means and techniques of war, assassinated murder, the blockading of journalistic careers, and kidnapping" was demanded by Russia. A Moscow district court arrested him in absentia on September 9, 2014.

Avakov announced on April 3 that the probe had found all the gunmen from Berkut' special football department (also known as the "Black Special Detachment") who were sniping protesters from the roof of the former October Palace and had been commanded by MVS Major Dmitro (Dmytro) Sadovnik. "The former MVS and Berkut's management has done everything possible" during the investigation, according to the acting minister. Avakov also said that gangs responsible for killing and abducting Euromaidan demonstrators were led by a head of media group "Kontakt" Viktor Zubritskiy.

Avakov founded People's Front in September 2014, becoming the first member of his new faction.

Avakov has published twelve scientific papers, one monograph, and a number of essays on political and social issues.

Avakov expressed his support for the Myrotvorets, a controversial doxing portal that was giving personal details of journalists who had obtained accreditation from Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine.

Arsen Avakov's purchase of the news website "BYKVU.com" in March 2019 was reported.

In December 2014, Avakov was recalled as Interior Minister in the second Yatsenyuk government and again in August 2019 in the Honcharuk government. Despite the offer of 24 NGO's (including AutoMaidan, StateWatch, and Transparency International Ukraine) not to re-appoint Avakov, he was reappointed in August 2019. "Avakov is accountable for failing to reform the police, sabotaging the vetting of police officers, maintaining corrupt police officers and witnesses in EuroMaidan cases, failing to prosecute allegations relating to him and his inner circle, and Avakov's reappointment said the day after Avakov's reappointment.

Arsen Avakov was listed in the list of the 100 most influential Ukrainians by Focus magazine in December 2019, taking eighth place.

In the newly elected Shmyhal government in March 2020, Avakov retained his position as Interior Minister.

Avakov resigned as Interior Minister on July 12, 2021, according to a letter sent by Avakov. Two days later, Parliament accepted his resignation. (A resignation of a Minister in Ukraine must be approved by parliament). His resignation was accepted by 291 deputies. Denys Monastyrsky had him replaced.

A number of experts point out that during Avakov's tenure as Minister of Internal Affairs, the reform of the main Ukrainian law enforcement branch fell through. With the enactment of a new bill "On the National Police," the former Ukrainian militsiya has simply changed its name, and the bulk of the company's workforce stayed unchanged.

"If the interior minister decides people of questionable reputation and ideologies contaminated with imperialism and right-wing extremism, the interior minister should be fired," Ukraine's chief rabbi, Vadym Troyan, writes in November 2014.

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