Ukrainians are a revolutionary, not evolutionary people. That was confirmed in the first round of the presidential election on March 31, when out of a record number of 39 candidates, a political neophyte and comedy actor received twice as many votes as the incumbent president.
The result of the second round on April 21 is hard to predict. Most probably, the 70 percent of the vote that did not go to first-round winner Volodymyr Zelensky cannot be brought together as Ukraine’s political elites are too quarrelsome. During the campaign, they spent more on black PR against each other than on promoting …read more