Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Paulner.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Museums are finding themselves under uncomfortable scrutiny. Many of them house artifacts stolen

in fits of colonialism or mere greed, but the calls for returning those objects are getting

louder. At the same time protests have broken out against one family known for its enormous

museum donations. And there's a slow, doughy crisis playing out in France. In the past decade,

bread consumption has fallen by a quarter. Inequality in the rise of processed foods play a role,

but the truth is that a good baguette is just really hard to make. What does the future

hold for the beleaguered baton? But first, in the hit Ukrainian comedy show Servant of the

People, a history teacher's expletive strewn anti-corruption rant goes viral, and this man

of the people lines up being elected president. But the comedian who plays him,

Vladimir Zelensky, is trying to turn fiction into reality. Voters head to the polls on Sunday

for the first round of Ukraine's presidential elections, and not only is Mr. Zelensky in the race,

he's the front runner. Five years ago, Ukrainians took to the streets and overthrew their former

president Viktor Yanukovych. Since then, they faced a simmering war in the east of their

country with Russia, which also annexed the Crimean Peninsula. Noah Snyder is our Moscow

correspondent. He recently visited Mr. Zelensky on set in Kiev. They've seen their economy crash

and come back from the brink, and they've seen many of the promises of the revolution

unfulfilled, especially when it comes to fighting corruption. That's opened a huge gulf of distrust

with the authorities, and that has led to a strange situation where the front runner in these

elections is a comedian, an actor with no political experience whatsoever, riding this wave of

anti-establishment sentiment and frustration towards a likely victory. And I understand that you

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