Ukrainian comedian gets serious with investors in bid for presidency


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  • Friday, 12 Apr 2019

FILE PHOTO: Comic actor and presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaks following the announcement of the first exit poll in Ukraine's presidential election at his campaign headquarters in Kiev, Ukraine March 31, 2019. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

KIEV (Reuters) - In a popular TV series, a fictional Ukrainian president gets so drunk at a dinner with the head of the International Monetary Fund that he throws her into a swimming pool.

He then forces bystanders to drink water from the pool, thinking in his drunken stupor that it is champagne.

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