TERNOPIL, JANUARY 28, CONTEXT-MEDIA. 17 deputies of the Ternopil City Council, who were not allowed into the regional public forum in support of political reform in Ukraine yesterday, initiated an extraordinary session. It began today at 10 o'clock. as reported by the city council's press service, its deputies are outraged by the unprecedented actions of law enforcement agencies, which did not allow either city and regional council deputies or media representatives into the theater hall, using the Interior Ministry's special unit for this and applying physical force. The extraordinary session intends to clarify: what are the powers of the so-called forum, whose opinion it expresses, whose orders the law enforcement officers were carrying out, and to give a comprehensive assessment of the anti-democratic attempts to turn Ukraine into an authoritarian police state. Reference. The Ternopil public forum "We support the course of political reforms" was held yesterday in the premises of the regional drama theater behind closed doors. Only with the help of police did the head of the regional state administration, Ivan Kurnytskyi, get into it. Media representatives and Nasha Ukraina deputies, both city and regional councils, did not get in. According to Serhii Yerii, head of the forum's organizing committee, holding such events is a normal expression of the will of the region's residents, and the fact that journalists did not get into the hall is an oversight of the organizing committee's secretariat.