Mayor of Hlukhiv personally pushed journalist from city council session

On November 17 in the town of Hlukhiv, the newly elected mayor Mishel Tereshchenko personally pushed the journalist of the local newspaper "Nedelia" Oksana Kovalenko from the room, where the town council’s session was held. The newspaper reports about this incident. According to the journalist, the mayor said "You have nothing to do here!" and forced her out of the room. The journalist has official accreditation in the town council, and she tried to explain this to him, but the mayor pretended not to understand her. The journalist commented that Tereshchenko, whose campaign was based on advertising his respect to European democracy standards, grossly violated these standards by his violent actions.