Odessa's Georgian Leader: The Governor
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10:23Now PlayingUkraine's government has found a novel way of trying to deal with corruption. They've hired a number of foreigners to head government agencies, ministries and even an entire region, in the hopes that their status as outsiders will make them less susceptible to the temptation to award contracts to their best friends, who presumably are not in Ukraine. In the port of Odessa, Mikheil Saakashvili has been appointed governor of the city and the surrounding region. Saakashvili was once the president of Georgia, but fled the country when a new government pressed charges of corruption against him. VICE News' Simon Ostrovsky spent a day with with the president-turned-governor to find out how he was handling his new job.
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