Polls suggest comedian Volodymyr Zelensky, who plays Ukraine's president on TV, is leading the country's real-life presidential race. (CBC)While Zelensky has surrounded himself with a team of political veterans, his campaign has been anything but orthodox. It feels like there's no other way," he said in reference to the deeply embedded culture of corruption in Ukraine. (CBC)"It's in the Ukrainian mentality that you enter the political elite and you steal," said Fedorenko, the political analyst. If no candidate gets 50 per cent of the vote in Sunday's Ukrainian election, a run-off vote will be held April 21.

Source: CBC News March 30, 2019 07:52 UTC