The District Administrative Court in Kyiv has allowed a claim by Oleksandr Marynchenko, one of the former Berkut officers accused of gunning down unaimed Maidan activists on Feb. 20, 2014, and has reinstated him in Ukraine’s police force. It appears, in fact, that Marynchenko was only very temporarily removed from the police force despite having been initially remanded in custody back on Feb. 14, 2015, on suspicion of involvement in the gunning down of 48 activists on Instytutska St.
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Halya Coynash: Ex-Berkut officer on trial for Maidan killings reinstated in police
Berkut riot police officers attack anti-govenment protesters on the European Square in central Kyiv on Nov. 25, 2013. Backed by black-clad regular riot police, the blue-and-gray uniformed Berkut were involved in the most brutal attempts to suppress the protests that eventually drove former President Viktor Yanukovych from power.
