{"id":3599,"count":1,"description":"<b>Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy<\/b><sup id=\"cite_ref-2\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy#cite_note-2\">[a]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0(also transliterated as\u00a0<b>Zelensky<\/b>\u00a0or\u00a0<b>Zelenskiy<\/b>;<sup id=\"cite_ref-5\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy#cite_note-5\">[b]<\/a><\/sup> born 25 January 1978) is a Ukrainian politician and former comedian and actor. Volodymyr Zelenskyy has served as the sixth and current <a title=\"President of Ukraine\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/President_of_Ukraine\">president of Ukraine<\/a>\u00a0since 2019.\r\n<h2><strong>History of Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/strong><\/h2>\r\nBorn to a\u00a0<a title=\"History of the Jews in Ukraine\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_the_Jews_in_Ukraine\">Ukrainian Jewish<\/a> family, Volodymyr Zelenskyy grew up as a native\u00a0<a title=\"Russian language in Ukraine\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russian_language_in_Ukraine\">Russian<\/a>\u00a0speaker in\u00a0<a title=\"Kryvyi Rih\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kryvyi_Rih\">Kryvyi Rih<\/a>, a major city of\u00a0<a title=\"Dnipropetrovsk Oblast\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dnipropetrovsk_Oblast\">Dnipropetrovsk Oblast<\/a>\u00a0in central Ukraine. Prior to his acting career, he obtained a degree in law from the\u00a0<a title=\"Kyiv National Economic University\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kyiv_National_Economic_University\">Kyiv National Economic University<\/a>.\r\n\r\nHe then pursued a career in comedy and created the production company\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Kvartal 95\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kvartal_95\">Kvartal 95<\/a>, which produced films, cartoons, and TV shows including the TV series\u00a0<i><a title=\"Servant of the People (TV series)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Servant_of_the_People_(TV_series)\">Servant of the People<\/a><\/i>, in which Zelenskyy played the role of the Ukrainian president. The series aired from 2015 to 2019 and was immensely popular.\u00a0<a title=\"Servant of the People\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Servant_of_the_People\">A political party<\/a>\u00a0bearing the same name as the television show was created in March 2018 by employees of Kvartal 95.\r\n\r\nZelenskyy announced his candidacy in the\u00a0<a title=\"2019 Ukrainian presidential election\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2019_Ukrainian_presidential_election\">2019 presidential election<\/a>\u00a0on the evening of 31 December 2018, alongside the New Year's Eve address of then-president\u00a0<a title=\"Petro Poroshenko\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Petro_Poroshenko\">Petro Poroshenko<\/a>\u00a0on the TV channel\u00a0<a title=\"1+1 (TV channel)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1%2B1_(TV_channel)\">1+1<\/a>. A political outsider, he had already become one of the frontrunners in\u00a0<a title=\"Opinion polling for the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Opinion_polling_for_the_2019_Ukrainian_presidential_election\">opinion polls for the election<\/a>.\r\n\r\nHe won the election with\u00a073.23\u00a0percent of the vote in the second round, defeating Poroshenko. He has positioned himself as an\u00a0<a title=\"Anti-establishment\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anti-establishment\">anti-establishment<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Anti-corruption\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anti-corruption\">anti-corruption<\/a>\u00a0figure. As president, Zelenskyy has been a proponent of\u00a0<a title=\"E-government\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/E-government\">e-government<\/a>\u00a0and of unity between the\u00a0<a title=\"Ukrainian language\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ukrainian_language\">Ukrainian<\/a>\u00a0and Russian speaking parts of\u00a0<a title=\"Demographics of Ukraine\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Demographics_of_Ukraine\">the country's population<\/a>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Hosa_2019_6-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy#cite_note-Hosa_2019-6\">[4]<\/a><\/sup><sup class=\"reference nowrap\"><span title=\"Page: 11\u201313\">:\u200a11\u201313\u200a<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0His communication style makes extensive use of\u00a0<a title=\"Social media use in politics\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Social_media_use_in_politics\">social media<\/a>, particularly\u00a0<a title=\"Instagram\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Instagram\">Instagram<\/a>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Hosa_2019_6-1\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy#cite_note-Hosa_2019-6\">[4]<\/a><\/sup><sup class=\"reference nowrap\"><span title=\"Page: 7\u201310\">:\u200a7\u201310\u200a<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0His party won a landslide victory in\u00a0<a title=\"2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2019_Ukrainian_parliamentary_election\">the snap legislative election<\/a>\u00a0held shortly after his inauguration as president. During the first two years of his administration, Zelenskyy oversaw the lifting of legal immunity for members of parliament (the\u00a0<a title=\"Verkhovna Rada\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Verkhovna_Rada\">Verkhovna Rada<\/a>),<sup id=\"cite_ref-7\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy#cite_note-7\">[5]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0<a title=\"COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Ukraine\">the country's response to the COVID-19 pandemic<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"COVID-19 recession\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/COVID-19_recession\">subsequent economic recession<\/a>, and some limited progress in tackling\u00a0<a title=\"Corruption in Ukraine\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Corruption_in_Ukraine\">corruption in Ukraine<\/a>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-8\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy#cite_note-8\">[6]<\/a><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-Wilson_2021_9-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy#cite_note-Wilson_2021-9\">[7]<\/a><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-ft_profile_10-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy#cite_note-ft_profile-10\">[8]<\/a><\/sup>\r\n<h2><strong>Career of Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/strong><\/h2>\r\nDuring his presidential campaign, Zelenskyy promised to end\u00a0<a title=\"Russo-Ukrainian War\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russo-Ukrainian_War\">Ukraine's protracted conflict with Russia<\/a>, and he has attempted to engage in dialogue with Russian president\u00a0<a title=\"Vladimir Putin\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vladimir_Putin\">Vladimir Putin<\/a>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Chatham_Lutsevych_11-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy#cite_note-Chatham_Lutsevych-11\">[9]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0His administration faced\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"2021\u20132022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2021%E2%80%932022_Russo-Ukrainian_crisis\">an escalation of tensions with Russia<\/a>\u00a0in 2021, culminating in the launch of\u00a0<a title=\"2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine\">an ongoing full-scale Russian invasion in February 2022<\/a>. Zelenskyy's strategy during the Russian military buildup was to calm the Ukrainian populace and assure the international community that Ukraine was not seeking to retaliate.<sup id=\"cite_ref-12\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy#cite_note-12\">[10]<\/a><\/sup>\r\n\r\nHe initially distanced himself from warnings of an imminent war, while also calling for security guarantees and military support from\u00a0<a title=\"NATO\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NATO\">NATO<\/a>\u00a0to \"withstand\" the threat.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Fr24_Seibt_13-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy#cite_note-Fr24_Seibt-13\">[11]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0After the start of the invasion, Zelenskyy declared\u00a0<a title=\"Martial law in Ukraine\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martial_law_in_Ukraine\">martial law across Ukraine<\/a>\u00a0and a general mobilisation of the armed forces. His leadership during the crisis has won him widespread international praise, and he has been described as a symbol of the Ukrainian resistance.<sup id=\"cite_ref-14\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy#cite_note-14\">[12]<\/a><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-15\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy#cite_note-15\">[13]<\/a><\/sup> Zelenskyy\u00a0 named the <a title=\"Time Person of the Year\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Time_Person_of_the_Year\"><i>Time<\/i>\u00a0Person of the Year<\/a>\u00a0for 2022 and opinion polls in Ukraine have ranked him as Ukraine's greatest president.<sup id=\"cite_ref-16\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy#cite_note-16\">[14]<\/a><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-17\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy#cite_note-17\">[15]<\/a><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-18\" 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