Members of the local youth council who fail to attend weekly council meetings get sacked relentlessly.

Several girls and boys have come together in a big meeting room of the Terebovlya town council. They are looking at a journalist from Kyiv with interest. Today, they have an unplanned meeting. These young citizens are members of the Terebovlya youth council that operates as a consulting and advisory body for the town mayor. The council is chaired by one of its founders – Nazar Turkovsky, a tall blond guy who has been working as the director of the Terebovlya Culture and Entertainment Centre for two years already. His deputy, Liliya Sokha, a law student at Ternopil National Economic University working also as a youth coordinator at the Terebovlya town council, makes her points in a balanced, calm and consistent way, just like a future lawyer should do.

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