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| Affiliation | Servant of the People |
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2022-04-01 |
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| Name | Volodymyr Zelenskyy |
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, , Ukraine |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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January 25, 1978
(46 years)
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Modifed | IndyGeorgia
Oct 15, 2022 08:42pm |
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| Info | Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy (Ukrainian: Володимир Олександрович Зеленський) is a Ukrainian politician, former actor and comedian who has been serving as the president of Ukraine since 2019.
Zelenskyy grew up in Kryvyi Rih, a Russian-speaking region in southeastern Ukraine. Prior to his acting career, Zelenskyy obtained a degree in law from the Kyiv National Economic University. He then pursued comedy and created the production company Kvartal 95, which produces films, cartoons, and TV shows including Servant of the People, in which Zelenskyy played the role of president of Ukraine. The series aired from 2015 to 2019 and was immensely popular. A political party bearing the same name as the television show was created in March 2018 by employees of Kvartal 95.
Zelenskyy announced his candidacy for the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election on the evening of 31 December 2018, alongside the New Year's Eve address of President Petro Poroshenko on 1+1 TV Channel. A political outsider, he had already become one of the frontrunners in opinion polls for the election. He won the election with 73.2% of the vote in the second round, defeating Poroshenko. Identifying as a populist, he has positioned himself as an anti-establishment, anti-corruption figure.
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