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Zelensky - A Biography of Ukraine's War Leader (Paperback)
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Zelensky - A Biography of Ukraine's War Leader (Paperback)
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Zelensky is the first major biography of Ukraine's leader written
for a Western audience. Told with flair and authority, it is the
gripping story of one of the most admired and inspirational leaders
in the world. Action-packed biography of Ukraine's
comedian-turned-President Millions who have admired Volodymyr
Zelensky's defiance during Russia's invasion of Ukraine will learn
much from this up-to-date biography of the Ukrainian President.
Zelensky's life to date has been packed with drama and action. By
the age of 20, the Jewish boy from the provincial town of Kryvyi
Rih had become a star of the stage. At 30, he headed a multi
million-dollar TV company. At 40, he took on Ukraine's corrupt
political and business elite in a TV drama where he played a
history teacher who becomes President. Then he launched a real-life
political party named after the TV show, won a landslide victory
and became Ukraine's real President. When Russian troops flooded
across the border, Zelensky refused Western offers to leave Kyiv.
He has marshalled Ukraine's resistance and successfully obtained
Western missile systems and anti-tank weapons. Zelensky said: 'If I
am elected, they will first sling mud at me. Then they will learn
to respect me. And finally cry when I leave.' Covering Zelensky's
background and bustling TV career through to his first,
controversial years in office to Russia's full-scale blitzkrieg,
Zelensky is written by a long-standing Russia and Ukraine reporter
and a Russian- and Ukrainian speaking researcher. It's a pithy
biography of Zelensky for anyone who wants to understand Ukraine's
charismatic head of state, his complex country, and its vexed
relationship with Russia. Covering Zelensky's life from his
childhood to the Ukrainian presidency, Zelensky deals with: his
background in a Russian-speaking region of Ukraine; his early
career in TV taking part in KVN talent competitions; his rise
through the Ukrainian and Russian television industry; and his
breakthrough moment in the TV series Servant of the People playing
a teacher, Vasyl Holoborodko, who dreams of reforming Ukraine and
ending its corruption. The show becomes a reality and Zelensky and
his party, called Servant of the People, take power. Zelensky's
presidency is dogged by controversy concerning his attempts to
curry favour with the US President Donald Trump and the offshoring
of tens of millions of dollars. Zelensky battles political rivals
and takes on powerful vested interests in Europe's second-largest
country - before fighting a superpower in a fight most assume
Ukraine will quickly lose (but does not). Extract In April 2019,
Volodymyr Zelensky was elected as the sixth President of Ukraine,
with nearly three-quarters of the vote. One month later, the
Russian President attended the World Economic Forum in St.
Petersburg. It had been five years since Russia's annexation of
Crimea but daily skirmishes between the Ukrainian army and
pro-Russian separatists were still commonplace in eastern Ukraine.
'Why did you not congratulate Volodymyr Zelenksy when he became
President?' asked the interviewer. Putin breathed a heavy sigh. The
Russian officials and business magnates in the room playfully
nudged one another: this was going to be good... Putin gave the
enormous hall an almost pitying look and waited until the
sniggering had died down... 'Listen, I do not know this man. I hope
that we can meet one day. As far as I can tell, he's amazing at
what he does, he's a marvellous actor.' Putin continued: 'But
seriously: it's one thing to play a person, but quite another thing
to be that person.' Laughter and generous applause filled the room.
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