The Berkut (Ukrainian: Беркут, Russian: Бе́ркут, Byerkut; "golden eagle" ) was the Ukrainian system of special police (riot police) of the Ukrainian Militsiya...
35 KB (3,183 words) - 12:23, 24 August 2024
CyberBerkut (Russian: КиберБеркут, Ukrainian: КіберБеркут) is a modern organized group of pro-Russian hacktivists. The group became locally known for a...
13 KB (1,051 words) - 14:54, 12 July 2024
Revolution of Dignity (section Berkut dissolved)
two Berkut officers were shot dead. At around 9am, protesters tried to push the Berkut away from the Maidan and back up Instytutska Street. The Berkut fired...
220 KB (18,665 words) - 22:31, 23 July 2024
relation to the deaths of protesters, including 29 former members of the Berkut special police force, ten titushky or loyalists of the former government...
116 KB (6,255 words) - 16:15, 12 August 2024
Ihor Volodymyrovych Huz (Ukrainian: Ігор Володимирович Гузь; born 11 January 1982) is a Ukrainian politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of...
17 KB (1,976 words) - 21:17, 21 August 2024
the request to release the arrested 15:00 – mass clashes with units of Berkut en route to the Presidential Administration 17:00 – Constituent Congress...
17 KB (1,569 words) - 06:07, 27 December 2023
(Ukrainian: чорний вівторок, romanized: chornyi vivtorok), after members of the Berkut special police force began attacking mourners, with members of the far-right...
12 KB (1,079 words) - 19:11, 17 June 2024
Revolution of Dignity, on February 24 they were released. Volodymyr Shpara, Ihor Mosiychuk and Serhiy Bevza were arrested on 22 August 2011 by the Security...
11 KB (1,067 words) - 18:27, 9 March 2024
protest. In January and February 2014, clashes in Kyiv between protesters and Berkut special riot police resulted in the deaths of 108 protesters and 13 police...
79 KB (7,860 words) - 08:58, 12 July 2024
of the Fourth Maidan Self-Defense Hundred, and was publicly tortured by Berkut officers in January 2014. In October 2014, he was elected to the Verkhovna...
18 KB (1,854 words) - 22:14, 22 October 2023