Sergei Chuzavkov/GettyMOSCOW–Ukraine knows Volodymyr Zelensky for his political satire, sharp comic performances and a TV series, “Servant of the People,” where he plays the country’s president in preposterous situations. Yet the comedian-turned-politician seems to be growing more serious by the day. Last Sunday, Zelensky won big in the first round of Ukraine’s presidential elections with a commanding 30 percent of the votes. That put him well ahead of the current president, Petro Poroshenko, who has led Ukraine through five hard years of Russian hybrid war but barely secured second place with only about 16 percent of the vote. Zelensky’s critics …read more
Source: The Daily Beast
