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Seeing as we're in Ukraine, I thought I'd check out they're ongoing presidential election (2nd round between incumbent Poroshenko and challenger Volodomyr Zelensky on April 21).

Zelensky is the frontrunner, he got 30% in the 1st round. He is accused of being a puppet of oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyi (something I could swear I saw on wikipedia, but can no longer find even using way back machine). Anyway, a source: https://www.sott.net/article/408226-Ukraine-Comedian-Volodymyr-Zelensky-leads-the-polls-in-presidential-race

Both are Jewish, if you're interested in Anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. Kolomoyskyi has a particularly fruity wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ihor_Kolomoyskyi

Some highlights:

>Kolomoyskyi has used Privat's "quasi-military forces" to enforce hostile takeovers of companies, sending a team of "hired rowdies armed with baseball bats, iron bars, gas and rubber bullet pistols and chainsaws" to forcibly take over a Kremenchuk steel plant in 2006,[26] and has used "a mix of phony court orders (often involving corrupt judges and/or registrars) and strong-arm tactics" to replace directors on the boards of companies he purchases stakes in.

>Analysts have listed Kolomoyskyi as an ally of Ukrainian politician Yulia Tymoshenko and her Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko.[1] Although according to RIA Novosti (in January 2010), Kolomoysky relations with Tymoshenko "were soured some time ago, probably due to his refusal to finance Tymoshenko's election campaign" in 2010.

>Kolomoyski owns 70% of the 1+1 Media Group whose TV channel 1+1 aired "Servant of the People", the comedy series in which Volodymyr Zelensky played the role of president of Ukraine.

>In April 2014 Kolomoyskyi offered a bounty for the capture of Russian-backed militants and incentives for the turning in of weapons.[40] He also is believed to have spent $10 million to create the Dnipro Battalion,[39][41] and also funded the Aidar, Azov, Dnepr 1, Dnepr 2, and Donbas volunteer battalions.

>Putin claimed that Kolomoyskyi had reneged on a contract with Abramovich, saying "He [Kolomoyskyi] even managed to cheat our Roman Abramovich two or three years ago. Scammed him, as our intellectuals like to say. They signed some deal, Abramovich transferred several billion dollars, while this guy never delivered and pocketed the money. When I asked him [Abramovich]: "Why did you do it?" he said: "I never thought this was possible.

Actual Ukrainians required for further digging.