Arsen Avakov

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the football player of the same name, see Arsen Awakow (football player) .

Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
	Арсен Борисович Аваков
Transl. :	Arsen Borysovyč Avakov
Transcr. :	Arsen Boryssovych Avakov
Cyrillic ( Russian )
	Арсен Борисович Аваков
Transl .:	Arsen Borisovič Avakov
Transcr .:	Arsen Borisovich Avakov

Arsen Boryssowytsch Awakow ( Ukrainian Аваков Арсен Борисович ; born January 2, 1964 in Baku ) is a Ukrainian politician (non-party; formerly all-Ukrainian association "Fatherland" ). On February 22, 2014, he was appointed Acting Minister of Interior of Ukraine. He is a member of the Schmyhal cabinet .

Life

Arsen Awakow was born on January 2, 1964 in the now incorporated settlement of Kirow near Baku in the former Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan and is of Armenian origin. His father was a professional soldier in the Soviet Army . When he was two years old, his family moved to the Ukrainian Soviet Republic . From 1981 to 1982 he worked as a laboratory assistant at the Chair of Automated Piping Systems at the Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute . There he successfully completed his engineering degree in 1988 . He then worked at the Research Institute for Water Protection. From 1990 onwards he used the new provisions to partially privatize the previous planned economy , he founded several companies, including the “Basis” bank, and later he also founded regional television channels.

In 2002 he was first elected to the Kharkiv City Council. In 2004 he was one of the leading figures in the “ Orange Revolution ” in the city. In 2005 he was appointed by the new President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko as head of the Oblast Administration of Kharkiv Oblast . In the same year, Our Ukraine was elected to the Council of the People's Union Party and became a member of the Party Presidium. In 2006 he became a Member of the Kharkiv Regional Council and a member of the Budget Commission.

In February 2010 he resigned from this office in protest against Yushchenko's course; He accused this, in the then campaign for the presidency Viktor Yanukovych support and thus to thwart the struggle of the "Orange Revolution" to the country's democratization. In April 2010 he switched to Yulia Tymoshenko's " Batkivshchyna " party and headed the Kharkiv district organization.

In October 2010, according to the opinion of foreign election observers, he was fraudulently deprived of victory in the mayoral elections of Kharkiv; he was missing around 3,000 votes against the candidate of the Yanukovych Party of Regions . But he was elected to the Kharkiv District Council. In September 2011, the authorities controlled by Yanukovych's party closed three of its regional television channels. In March 2012, he was for alleged abuse of office (Awakow among others, the illegal transfer of land was accused) due from the Ukrainian authorities in Interpol requested international arrest warrant in Rome arrested. But the appellate court in Rome overturned the warrant after a few days on the grounds that it was clearly politically motivated. In the 2012 parliamentary election , Avakov was elected to the Verkhovna Rada . However, since he stated that he still feared political persecution, he did not return to Ukraine from Italy until December 2012. On February 22, 2014, he succeeded Vitaly Sakharchenko as Minister of the Interior in the second Azarov cabinet for a few days and held the post of February 27, 2014 in the Yatsenyuk I cabinet , in December 2014 in the Yatsenyuk II cabinet in April 2016 in the Hroysman cabinet in August 2019 in the Honcharuk cabinet and since March 4, 2020 in the Schmyhal cabinet .

In connection with the violent death of Oleksandr Musychko , Dmytro Yarosh , the spokesman for the radical nationalist group Pravyj Sector , accused Avakov of “active counter-revolutionary activity” on March 25, 2014 and called for his resignation.

At a meeting of the National Reform Council of the Ukrainian Parliament in December 2015, Avakov and the then governor of the Odessa region, Mikheil Saakashvili, had a verbal exchange of blows. After Saakashvili Avakov, together with Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk , who was also present, had accused of corruption, the Interior Minister lost control, threw a glass of water at the governor and asked him to leave his country immediately. Saakashvili protested that he was also a Ukrainian and, unlike Avakov and Yatsenyuk, had not plundered the country.

In May 2017, Sergei Kaplin , a parliamentarian from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, made serious allegations against Avakov, according to which corruption in Ukraine had become systematic under him. In the fight against corruption and organized crime, the Ukrainian Ministry of the Interior has failed completely because, according to Kaplin, Avakov himself was at the forefront of the relevant incidents.

author

Avakov is the author of academic articles, political essays and co-author of a monograph on bills of exchange in banking.

Web links

Commons : Arsen Awakow  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of Arsen Avakov

Individual evidence

1. ^ RIA Novosti, February 22, 2014
2. ↑ Biographical information according to the website of the TV channel UBR (Ukrainian Business Report)
3. ↑ mediaport.ua, November 22, 2005
4. ↑ Аваков Арсен. November 28, 2018, accessed December 22, 2018 (ru-RU). 
5. ^ Website of the Ukrainian Ministry of the Interior
6. ↑ Reinhard Veser, Old Ministers and New Heroes, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, March 13, 2014, p. 4.
7. ↑ Freedom House, Ukraine Report 2012
8. ↑ Ukraine: On the Flight from Viktor Yanukovych , Die Presse, September 14, 2013
9. ↑ spiegel.de (English version), April 9, 2012
10. ^ La Repubblica, April 12, 2012
11. ^ Website of the Ministry of the Interior
12. ^ Unrest in the right sector , FAZ from March 26, 2014
13. ↑ Аваков опубликовал видео нецензурной перебранки с Саакашвили. Retrieved November 9, 2017 . 
14. ↑ Аваков возглавляет коррупцию в Украине - Каплин | Новости - МИР . ( iamir.info [accessed November 10, 2017]).
15. ↑ List of publications