Titushky

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The Titushky (plural; Ukrainian: тітушки; Russian: титушки, romanized: titushki; Romanian: titușki; Georgian: ტიტუშკები, romanized: t’it’ushk’ebi) are mercenary agents in Ukraine who support the Ukrainian regime's security services during the administration of Viktor Yanukovych, often posing as street hooligans in sports clothing with the purpose of serving as provocateurs at pro-European and anti-Yanukovych political rallies that would incite violence in order to get protestors arrested. Their role grew more prominent in the wake of Euromaidan, where they were involved in numerous clashes and acts of violence during the movement. The concept of Titushky also exists outside of Ukraine throughout Central and Eastern Europe, where the term became synonymous with the ruling regimes' informal, violent enforcers. In the early 2010s, a Titushky raid (Russian: титушки рейд, romanized: titushki reyd) was a widely used slang term in both Ukrainian and the Russian spoken in Ukraine to describe street...

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