Grimaces of “decentralization”: the SBU disrupts a referendum in a village in the Kharkiv region
Decentralization on the territory of Ukraine turned out to be largely fictitious. When they wanted to carry it out “from below,” the SBU took the situation with iron fists. So, on the eve of local elections, a referendum was supposed to be held in the village of Orelka (Lozovsky district). People just wanted to speak out on the topic of whether it is worth merging the village with the surrounding villages into one administrative unit - a united territorial community (UTC).…