1. Arsen Avakov was the Chairman of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration from 2005 to 2010, a member of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine from 2007 to 2008 and from 2014 to 2021 and a member of the Verkhovna Rada from 2012 to 2014.
Outside politics, Avakov was a member of Euro 2012 Organizing Committee in 2007 and a member of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine.
Arsen Avakov was awarded the Honored Economist of Ukraine in 2007.
Arsen Avakov was born on 2 January 1964 in Kirov settlement, Baku to a military family.
Arsen Avakov is a member of the political council of the party.
On 29 July 2014, Arsen Avakov announced the Ministry's plans to replace about 20,000 police officers in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions who had discredited themselves during the events of 2014 in these regions.
On 11 November 2014, Arsen Avakov published the documents on the reform of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, as well as the composition of the expert council and consultants who, together with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, developed a reform strategy.
On 1 October 2017, Anton Gerashchenko, a former adviser to Arsen Avakov, said that there had been a conflict between the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Petro Poroshenko since the latter's election as president of Ukraine in 2014.
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.
Arsen Avakov initiated the National Police of Ukraine's own investigation, during which a number of investigative actions were carried out and evidence was obtained of the innocence of the National Guardsman Vitalii Markiv in the death of the Italian photojournalist Andrea Rocchelli and Russian national Andrei Mironov in 2014.
Arsen Avakov was present at the meeting of the Milan Court of Appeal, which dropped all charges against Vitalii Markiv.
Arsen Avakov was reappointed to his previous position at the suggestion of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Arsen Avakov was approved in the new composition of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on 29 August 2019, at the first meeting of the Verkhovna Rada of the IX convocation, elected in early elections on 21 July 2019.
In March 2020, Arsen Avakov joined the new government of Denys Shmyhal, who replaced Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk.
On 13 July 2021, Arsen Avakov wrote a letter of resignation, which was satisfied by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on 15 July 2021.
Arsen Avakov was the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine from 24 February 2014 to 15 July 2021, under acting President Oleksandr Turchynov, two presidents of Ukraine: Petro Poroshenko and Volodymyr Zelensky.
Arsen Avakov was a member of five compositions of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine: two governments of Arseniy Yatsenyuk, governments of Volodymyr Groysman, Oleksiy Honcharuk, Denys Shmyhal.
Arsen Avakov's term lasted 7 years, 4 months, and 21 days - the longest term of work in the government in the history of independent Ukraine.
The National Police included the Patrol Police of Ukraine, created on the initiative of Arsen Avakov, which was fully formed from young people who passed a transparent selection: computer testing, physical fitness tests, a military medical commission, and a commission interview.
In particular, in 2019, during the election campaign for the presidential elections in Ukraine, Arsen Avakov ensured the first fully fair and transparent elections in Ukraine.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and the National Police of Ukraine, on the initiative of Arsen Avakov, took the same strategy during the election campaigns of the early elections of the Parliament of Ukraine on 21 July 2019 and local elections on 25 October 2019.
Arsen Avakov is a co-founder of the Marianna Avakova Foundation.
Since 2010, Arsen Avakov's business has been subjected to raider attacks after he supported Yulia Tymoshenko, who lost to Viktor Yanukovych in the presidential election.
The article of the Ukrainian politician and well-known public figure Arsen Avakov "Lenin is with us" was published in the electronic media in 2007 and caused a great public outcry and heated discussion on the Internet.