The head of the MIA of Ukraine Arsen Avakov informed that the police at the same time carry out Searches at 18 places of Kharkiv on the Affairs connected with the events on Euromaidan. Searches are conducted and among them persons associated with the mayor of Kharkiv Gennady Kernes.

first Ukrainian media said that the police conduct their Investigation in Kharkov at the place of actual residence Kernes - the hotel "national" on Lenin Avenue. Avakov confirmed on the first day of the week that the police conducts Searches in Kharkov on business-related events on the Kiev Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence square), but no details are resulted.

"Yes, in Kharkov the Ministry of internal Affairs conducts investigations in criminal cases involving violations of the law on the Maidan." Aunts "from Kharkov associated with ?ilina" Bastion ", a crime in Mariinsky Park against the protesters. Organization of destabilization in Kharkov and cooperation with the separatist circles in DND. Investigations and Searches conducted at 18 sites in the same time - and also on objects and persons connected with the present mayor Kernes, " - wrote Avakov.

so, the Minister has not confirmed that the Searches are targeted by place of residence Kernes.

Prosecutor General's office first filed a case against Kharkiv mayor and his guards. Blame them in the kidnapping and beating of participants of Euromaidan in March of last year. If guilt Kernes will prove, to it threatens from 5 till 10 years of imprisonment. The mayor of Kharkiv rejects all charges in your own address.

Kiev's main square Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence square) - was occupied by supporters of European integration on November 21, 2013, immediately after the announcement of the government of Mykola Azarov about temporary suspension of the signing of the Treaty on the Union with the EU. Later, the Maidan became the epicenter of the confrontation between the security forces and radicals. The clashes, during which opposing political force many times used firearms and " Molotov cocktails ", were dozens of casualties.

Twenty-second day of February 2014, the country underwent a coup. The Verkhovna Rada ousted Viktor Yanukovych from power, changed the Constitution and called early presidential elections, the results of which the new President of Ukraine is Petro Poroshenko.

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