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Daily Financial Times
Daily Financial Times
Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was a political novice when he came to power. He was an actor and a comedian. He had a landslide victory in the presidential election held in 2019 getting 73.23 votes defeating the then president Petro Poroshenko. His political party Servants of the People was formed in late 2017 and registered in 2018. By the time he became the President, Ukraine was having strong nationalistic ideology and that was anti-Russian and pro-Western. Prior to the rule of Soviet Union, Ukraine was under Russian and Polish rule. Ukraine became independent in 1991 after the coll…