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Volodymyr Zelenskyy
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy

President of Ukraine

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy is a Ukrainian politician and former actor who has served as President of Ukraine since 2019. Elected on an anti-corruption platform, he became an internationally recognized wartime leader after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Overview

Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy is a Ukrainian politician and former entertainer who has served as the sixth president of Ukraine since 2019. He took office five years after the start of the Russo-Ukrainian War with Russia's annexation of Crimea and invasion of the Donbas, and has continued to serve during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has been ongoing since February 2022.

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Timeline

1970s
1978

Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy was born into a Jewish family on 25 January...

Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy was born into a Jewish family on 25 January 1978 in Kryvyi Rih, an industrial city in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast of Ukraine

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1978

Birth

Birth of Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

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1990s
1995

He was soon invited to join another Ukrainian team known as...

He was soon invited to join another Ukrainian team known as "Zaporizhzhia-Kryvyi Rih-Transit", where he became dance director and writer in 1995

career
1997

The Transit team performed in KVN's Major League and eventually won in 1997 in...

The Transit team performed in KVN's Major League and eventually won in 1997 in a tie with Armenian opponents

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1999

From 1999 to 2003, Kvartal 95 performed in the highest open Ukrainian league of...

From 1999 to 2003, Kvartal 95 performed in the highest open Ukrainian league of KVN as well as in the KVN Major League; they were the only Ukrainian team in the Moscow-based highest league of KVN

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2000s
2003

Zelenskyy (centre) performing with Kvartal 95 in 2018 After leaving KVN, the...

Zelenskyy (centre) performing with Kvartal 95 in 2018 After leaving KVN, the Kvartal 95 team moved to Kyiv, where Zelenskyy and the brothers Borys and Serhiy Shefir - who had been members of the Transit KVN team - founded the Kvartal 95 Studio company in September 2003

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2005

In 2005, Kvartal 95 moved to the Ukrainian TV channel Inter, where they...

In 2005, Kvartal 95 moved to the Ukrainian TV channel Inter, where they launched the Evening Kvartal [uk] comedy show the same year

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2010s
2011

Kvartal 95 Studio Zelenskyy (left) and Yevhen Koshovyi (right) cohosting the...

Kvartal 95 Studio Zelenskyy (left) and Yevhen Koshovyi (right) cohosting the opening portion of Teletriumph 2011, the national television awards of Ukraine

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2012

Kvartal 95 returned to 1+1 in 2012

Kvartal 95 returned to 1+1 in 2012

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2020s
2026

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2026

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