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The Mariinskyi Palace, official residence of the president of Ukraine, in July 2018. The president of Ukraine is the head of state of Ukraine, directly elected to a five-year term by voting eligible citizens of Ukraine. The officeholder leads the executive branch of the government and is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy was born to Jewish parents on 25 January 1978 in Kryvyi Rih, then in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. [29] [30] [31] His father, Oleksandr Zelenskyy, is a professor and computer scientist and the head of the Department of Cybernetics and Computing Hardware at the Kryvyi Rih State University of Economics and Technology; his mother, Rymma Zelenska, is a ...
Presidential elections were held in Ukraine on 31 March 2019. As none of the 39 candidates on the ballot received an absolute majority of the initial vote, a runoff was held on 21 April between the top two vote-getters: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a television personality, and Petro Poroshenko, the incumbent president.
Zelensky, he said, is “no angel” and “shouldn’t have allowed this war to happen,” even though it was Russia that invaded Ukraine. “First of all, he’s fighting a much bigger entity ...
Trump and Macron then waved to the assembled media and shared a few words before ducking inside the West Wing. ... met in Paris in December alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for the ...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a new star for the international community. "When I met him, he was so full of energy and full of ideas all the time," said former business partner Nicola Söderlund. A ...
The president wields high power in the legislative branch of government compared to other European heads of state. They may disband the parliament and call for early elections. [41] This power has only been used twice to date, first by president Viktor Yushchenko in 2007, and by president Volodymyr Zelenskyy in 2019. The legislative branches ...
President Joe Biden welcomes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to the White House on Wednesday. ... wrote in the New York Times on Feb. 21 that three days before the invasion, “the ...