One Man's Meat

From comic to commander-in-chief

By Philip Golingai
Unexpected win: Zelenskiy reacting to the announcement of the first exit poll in a presidential election at his campaign headquarters in Kiev, Ukraine. — Reuters

THE new president of Ukraine is a comedian. And that is not a joke.

On April 21, Volodymyr Zelenskiy defeated the incumbent president Petro Poroshenko with 73% of the votes in the second-round run-off election.

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