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.
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