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Why the sudden resignation of Ukraine’s top police official is an important political event Evgeny FeldmanArsen Avakov near the conflict zone in eastern Ukraine. Izyum, Kharkiv region, July 9, 2014. On July 13, Ukraine’s top police official, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, filed a letter of resignation. On July 15, the Ukrainian parliament supported his decision to step down. Avakov assumed office seven years ago, immediately after the end of the Euromaidan Revolution in February 2014.