Sergiy Leshchenko, UP

Petro Poroshenko is surely leading in the elections of the President of Ukraine. His story is an example of what kind of dramatic changes politics undergoes in the period of revolution and how rapidly ratings may change in an unstable society.

A year ago Poroshenko did not brave announcing his will to become mayor of Kyiv, being unsure of his own victory. And today he has a threefold advantage over his pursuers at the elections of the President, caused by loss of trust to oppositional party leaders on Maidan and Yanukovich’s flight, as a result of which 30 per cent of the voters have lost the representative of their interests in politics.

Poroshenko’s presidency is not only a challenge for Ukraine, but for him personally. Someone who has been trained for many years to enrich himself and motivated by personal interest has to immediately switch to serving…