a president. so before he became a real president, he was president on tv, and people liked this image very much. vasily goloborodko, the character zelensky played, was everything that ukraine s real presidents hadn t been up until that point. taras stadnytskyi is a peer of zelensky from ukraine s comedy circuit. when i interviewed zelensky in 2019, he accepted some might vote for him in the hope of getting the fictional president.
foreign investors might deter an attack. the campaign was now on, but zelensky was still making tv shows. he laughs we were invited back to the offices of his production company, kvartal 95, for a look behind the scenes. this is where you film your comedy shows? yes, yes, not only comedy shows, everything on tv. we have documentary, dramas, movies, we have two big satire shows, you know, political satire. the first stage is where we create the ideas, the guys are sitting here, they are the chiefs of different groups,
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laughs who knows? nobody knows. 25th of january, 2019, volodymyr zelensky turns a1. it is also the birthday of one of the most extraordinary stories in modern politics. in the centre of kyiv, ukraine s most famous comedian and actor is signing papers to officially become a candidate for presidency. none of us in the press pack outside are quite sure whether we re part of a joke that we ve not been let into or whether it is something more sincere. as it turns out, for perhaps the first time in his life, zelensky was being serious. but asked to spell out his policies, it all seemed a bit vague. 0n ukraine s existential issue, russia, for example, he seemed to think that
now barely a day passes without him addressing a parliament or international organisation. the message follows a set path showing the full horrors of russia s war on ukraine, and then demanding that the outside world do more to equip his country to resist. everybody saw the picture of zelensky in bucha. and can you imagine such a picture of putin? never. zelensky often visits hospitals to see wounded soldiers. he is also visiting ukrainian families. you can get access to president zelensky.