Frustrated by the lack of progress in road repairs, Vasiliy tries to find an honest person he could hire as a new Minister of Infrastructure. Mukhin prepares to meet an important delegation from India.
Vasiliy visits Kharkiv in an attempt to further his plan to take down the oligarchs. The head of the IMF delegation is getting impatient to meet the President.
Modest teacher Vasiliy is caught on camera raging over the political situation in his country. When a pupil posts the video on Youtube, it goes viral and Vasiliy becomes President of Ukraine.
Vasiliy awakes from a Greek philosophy dream to spend his first full day in office. His family are now fawning all over him and his newfound power - all except his sister, who arrives at the family home oblivious to recent developments.
The powers that be try to remove Vasiliy's people by offering them bribes, but none of them is willing to take any money. Vasiliy is worried about Nina Igorevna who is missing after being filmed in a humiliating situation.
During the televised debate, Vasiliy reveals that he's found evidence on a corruption scheme involving some of the highest government officials. The powers that be are planning to assassinate Vasiliy.
WIth Vasiliy is jail, Surikov becomes the new president and immediately moves against his other enemies to protect his position. Meanwhile, Vasiliy's people go to the European Union to lobby for his release.
Vasiliy prepares his speech for the inauguration with a range of vocal exercises. Stand-ins play out the presidential figures he will have to meet, while he takes his son to ride a merry-go-round with a huge protection team in tow.
Vasiliy is making life difficult for Yuri Ivanovich by refusing to use a limousine and firing his bodyguards. He also has to deal with the former President, who is refusing to leave the office.