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Editor’s Note: The following is the English-language transcript of Hromadske Radio’s “Ukraine Calling” program on September 15, interviewing Michel Terestchenko, the expat mayor of Hlukhiv and the grandson of a member of the only democratic government in pre-Soviet Russia, about politics and life away from the capital.

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of Ukraine Calling for Hromadske Radio in Kyiv. I’m Bohdan Nahaylo and will your host. This week we’re offering you the latest news from Ukraine, some new music, and a discussion with Michel Terestchenko, the descendant of a distinguished Ukrainian family who emigrated to Ukraine from France and is the now the embattled reformist mayor of the eastern city of Hlukhiv.

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