FEW COUNTRIES are as disposed to spectacle and phantasmagoria as Ukraine, the birthplace of Mikhail Bulgakov and Nikolai Gogol. Their shadows, surely, enveloped springtime Kiev on March 31st as a comedian who plays the president in a popular TV show “Servant of the People” emerged as the likely next president of Ukraine. Ukrainian politics have often resembled a reality show. Now a show is turning into reality.
In the first round of presidential elections Volodymyr Zelensky, an actor who plays a history teacher accidentally propelled into the presidency, won 30% of the votes, as many as the incumbent president, Petro Poroshenko, …read more
Source: The Economist
