announcer: the democracy program introduced councils from a acros ukraine to a new tooll that wowd allow watch over political proceedings. the innovation is the only streaming of counsel sessions, a standard praractice in westetern democracieies, but absent t in e local councils of ukraine. says it has been a great catalyst for engagement. a young actitivist from the neay village was so inspired by t t u.n. democracy p project, he ben taping his village council sessions himself. the videos he posted to youtubee have a large audience. announcer: if hehe is one day no longer able to film the sessions, he thinks his work won't live on. that ishy he has traveled from the village to memeet with bucks on a- oksanyaya today, to get advice on how they y can legally mandate streamaming. announcer: tododay, hehe gets encoururaging news when a villae councilmember throws her support behind his project. announcer: directly because ofof his effortsts to bring about greaeater transparency, two mons after we filmed d his work, the head of the council was arrested on major bribery charges. sergei try to