Kiev
A TALL TALE making the rounds in the pubs and restaurants during happy hour in the Ukrainian capitol sounds more like the script for an episode of the old television series The Twilight Zone than a serious discussion of the country’s political future. According to this Ukrainian urban legend, a mysterious, hermit-like old man with a long, gray beard materializes from out of the woods and boards a bus at a roadside stop on the outskirts of the city. He rises and addresses the passengers predicting that shortly a new man will assume the presidency of the former Soviet republic, but that he will not see the end of his term and will soon die in office to be replaced by a woman.
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