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Kyiv City Council says Mayor Leonid Chernovetskyy is back on the job after an absence of several weeks. Council spokeswoman Olha Tuniy told journalists that Chernovetskyy had been back in the office since Feb. 7. She did not say where Chernovetskyy was during his absence. Local media reported in December that Chernovetskyy disappeared shortly after he was ousted in November as head of the Kyiv city administration and replaced by a senior municipal official, Oleksandr Popov. Read more.