Sergei Grits/APKIEV—Ukraine’s new first lady, Olena Zelenska, cracks jokes for a living. Until a week ago, she was a professional scriptwriter on her husband’s comedy show. Now it’s time to become, well, not only serious but “passionate about democracy,” she said in an interview with The Daily Beast. Millions of Ukrainian fans of Servant of the People, the television program that starred her husband Volodymyr Zelenskiy as a fictional president, came to see him as a true fighter against corruption.Now that he has been elected president for real, and by a landslide, will he stick to the model he and …read more
Source: The Daily Beast
