Leonid Chernovetsky, our "potential mayor" (as Ukrainska Pravda calls him), started his campaign a while ago by setting up a dining hall and other free services for the poor. He seems like a jerk otherwise, and his unexpected victory resembles that of Hamas a lot (thanks for the analogy, mama): while everyone's busy with abstract talk, waste of paper and large-scale stealing, he chose to spend a little bit of his money on something many people would be really grateful for - and won.