On April 21, 2019, Ukraine elected its new President. However, are there many people actually supporting him?
1. The largest known group of Zelenskyy's supporters are his Instagram followers. His short videos were not known to anybody outside that circle - but several millions watching them happened to be enough to win the presidency.
2. While civil society activists fought against corruption of Poroshenko's inner circle, they envisioned better reforms and less corruption. Instead, Zelenskyy is widely supported by pro-Russians and Yanukovych's henhcmen.
3. In fact, nobody knows Mr. Zelenskyy. Journalists did not even know how to write his last name in English - to transliterate it from Ukrainian (Zelenskyi), from Russian (Zelenskiy) or to adapt it to English tradition (Zelensky) until he reported that his passport said "Zelenskyy" which was an odd short-lived transliteration variant presumably of the end-1990s. Which is worse, he had no real programme, he was simply anti-establishment. The very first day after the election, his team representative renounced every major populist promise, e.g. lower natural gas prices for population.
4. All in all, numerous people voted not for Zelenskyi, but against Poroshenko and for "a new face". Unfortunately, currently he appears to be a cover for old politicos and notorious masterminds working behind his back.