A young television comic and novice candidate trounced Ukraine’s political elite in the first round of the presidential election, official results showed April 1 — a stinging rebuke by an electorate tired of the lack of change in a country dominated by rich businessmen.
New York Times: In Ukraine presidential runoff, it’s comic versus chocolate king
This combination of files pictures made on March 31, 2019 shows portraits of presidential candidates : Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (L) taken on Nov. 3, 2018 and Ukrainian comic actor and showman Volodymyr Zelenskiy taken on March 6, 2019.
