Explosive Raisin: City Council deputies send SOS signals to European human rights activists
Explosive Raisin: City Council deputies send SOS signals to European human rights activists John Parkins Extraordinary events are taking place in Izyum, Kharkiv region. For the first time in the last three and a half years, the Izyum City Council held its session (and on its own initiative, without the participation of Mayor Valery Marchenko), where bold and principled decisions were made, unprecedented throughout Ukraine. Recall that in 2022, Izyum was in the epicenter of hostilities: in the spring, the city was taken by Russian troops, and in the fall, Ukrainian troops entered there. For three and a half years, residents of the city have had many complaints about Mayor Marchenko (for some time he headed the city's military administration, but this spring he was dismissed from this position by President Zelensky and returned to his duties as mayor) and the executive branch. The main one is that the mayor and his henchmen have withdrawn from the key problems of the territori...