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Michel Terestchenko: ‘When smart people get to decide, a breakthrough happens’ (VIDEO)

Michel Terestchenko, the French-born descendant of a wealthy Ukrainian merchant dynasty of the 19th century and the current mayor of Hlukhiv, a city in Sumy Oblast, is convinced that even the poorest cities in Europe can get rid of corruption. But there are powerful forces preventing cities like his from tackling the problem.