[26][27][28] On the night of 7 April 2014, Avakov personally led the assault operation on the building of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration, which had been seized by separatists and militants who came from Belgorod the day before.

[29] In Kharkiv on 6 April, well-managed groups of supporters of the "Russian world", specially trained by militants and managed by specialists from Russia, surrounded the building of the regional state administration and the adjacent quarter.

Stabilization in Kharkiv was vital, critically necessary for the whole of Ukraine.The special operation to liberate the Kharkiv Regional State Administration was carried out by the special forces unit “Jaguar” (from Vinnytsia city) of the  Ministry of Internal Affairs under the direct supervision of the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov and the operational management of the commander of the National Guard of Ukraine Stepan Poltorak.

Before the start of the assault, the Kharkiv metro was stopped, and the city center was cordoned off by local police and cadets of the National Guard Military Academy of Ukraine and the University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

[32] In addition, 15,000 policemen in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, who remained in the territories controlled by the armed formations of the DPR and LPR, were dismissed from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and deprived of social guarantees.

On 9 October 2014, Avakov announced the beginning of lustration in his Ministry after the entry into force of the relevant law, which was signed the day before by the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, By the end of October, 91 employees were dismissed (among those dismissed were the heads of regional police departments in Kyiv, Donetsk, Chernihiv, Ternopil, Khmelnytskyi, Poltava regions, the leadership of the Department of the Security Service and traffic police units, as well as 8 generals).

On 2 December 2014, a coalition in the Verkhovna Rada formed by “Petro Poroshenko Bloc”, “People's Front”, “Self Reliance” (Samopomich), “Radical Party of Oleh Liashko” and “Batkivshchyna” (Motherland) created a draft of a new government, where Arsen Avakov retained the post of head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.

According to the legislation, the parliament prematurely dismissed 4 MPs, elected from the People's Front party: Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Arsen Avakov, Vyacheslav Kyrylenko, and Pavlo Petrenko.

[34][35][36][37][38] On 30 June 2017, Vitalii Markiv, senior sergeant, squad commander of the Kulchitsky battalion (military unit 3066) of the National Guard of Ukraine, was detained in Italy on suspicion of involvement in the death of photojournalist Andrea Rocchelli and Russian citizen Andrei Mironov in the city of Sloviansk in May 2014.

[39] Immediately after the arrest of Markiv, Arsen Avakov declared the innocence of the National Guardsman, the bias of the court, and the use of fake evidence falsified by Russia.

[40][41] Throughout the trial of the Markiv case from 2017 to 2020, Minister Avakov supervised its progress, repeatedly met with representatives of the Italian embassy, facilitated the work of lawyers (according to some sources, paid for their services), and attended all court hearings in the cities of Pavia and Milan.

From the first day of Markiv's detention on 30 June 2017, until his release on 3 November 2020, Minister Avakov took a consistent position – the state is obliged to protect its citizen, who has become an instrument of the hybrid war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, using all its institutions, diplomatic tools and work with the Ukrainian diaspora in Italy.

A corresponding bill was even submitted to the Rada, but Avakov resolutely opposed such a decision, motivating his position by the fact that the withdrawal of NGU from the ministry would cast doubt on the further service of volunteer guardsmen, complicate interaction with the police, and also create problems in the budgeting process and management.

In October 2014, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov confirmed that the reform would eliminate the Main Anti-Organized Crime Directorate, the Transport, and Veterinary Police “and a number of other units”.

From the very beginning of his term, Avakov initiated the efforts of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to introduce biometric passports, which was one of the necessary conditions for the introduction of a visa-free regime between Ukraine and the European Union.

As part of the agreement, the French government provided Ukraine with  55 modern Airbus Helicopters of the H125, H225 Super Puma and H145 models for a total of 551 million euros.

[57] Ukraine received these funds through an extremely friendly procedure – a special borrowing at 4.25% per annum from the State Treasury of France and a consortium of French banks.

[58] During Avakov's tenure as Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine during election campaigns, the police consistently took an equidistant, neutral position from all candidates and political forces.

The main real achievement of Avakov is the beginning of reforms in the system of Internal Affairs bodies and the involvement of experienced professionals from Georgia in this process”.

In 2020, the Focus publication noted that “Arsen Avakov was called an "interim minister" in Zelensky's team, but already in December, Ukrainska Pravda assigned him the role of "political master Yoda under the young Jedi preZedent".

And in the spring of this year, the situation changed so much that when one of the leaders of the presidential faction was asked if there was any fear that Avakov's political weight was growing every day, he replied: "How can you be afraid of what has already happened?".

Therefore, the 2008 edition of the book "Lenin is with Us" included not only an article, but also a selection of comments and discussions in various electronic media - one might say, "Internet epistolary", a public answer to the question of the relevance and necessity of decommunization and liberation from the myths and idols of Soviet propaganda.

After Revolution of Dignity, the era of “Leninfall” and The Law on Decommunization the reader gets the opportunity to recall direct quotes from the leader and ideologist of communism in the USSR and, possibly, to re-evaluate his attitude to Lenin - both a reliable historical figure and the myth of Soviet propaganda.

The book includes an interesting documentary part of the chronicle of the people's "Leninfall" and the official statistics of the "Institute of National Remembrance of Ukraine" on the dismantling of monuments to Lenin.

Years – from Euromaidan, the victory  of the Revolution of Dignity to the present day - through the despair and impotence of the annexation of Crimea, the capture of part of the Donbas, war, grief and valor...

Through the formation of emotions of the next period of the historical struggle for independence, national identity, through the great daily work of launching a global state reform.

Each publication of the collection is preceded by a chronicle of the day when it was published – sometimes it suggests the background of the post, its mood, sometimes not – but it always allows the reader to build his temporary reminiscences to this difficult time.

One night of the troubled spring of the hardest 2014, which saved Kharkiv from the tragic fate of Donetsk, Luhansk, many,  many cities and villages of Donbas, which have been ravaged by separatists and Russian mercenaries for the seventh year.

The events in Kharkiv are given in the context of the situation in the country, with direct links to the news feeds of those days and months that give the reader the background of one of the most difficult periods in the history of Ukraine.

For the first time, the book also publishes documents obtained by the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the course of operational work on criminal cases against the leaders of the so-called "DPR/LPR", separatist field commanders and the Russian military.