Ukraine entered uncharted political waters yesterday after near final results showed a comedian with no political experience and few detailed policies had dramatically upended the status quo and won the country’s presidential election by a landslide.Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s win was a bitter blow for incumbent Petro Poroshenko and presents a riddle for investors, the West and Russia, who wonder what approach he will take on everything from relations with Moscow to the domestic banking sector.Zelenskiy, 41, will take leadership of a country on the frontline of the West’s stand-off with Russia following Moscow’s annexation of Crimea and its support for a …read more
Source: Gulf times
