On January 25, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky celebrates his 46th birthday. This year, he has been to wait to greet him until the details of the downing of IL-76 in the Russian Federation are clarified.
On the night of January 1, 2019, Zelensky announced his intention to run for President of Ukraine. And on March 1, 30.24% of voters (5714034 people) voted for Zelensky in the first round of elections. In the second round, he defeated Petro Poroshenko with 73.22% of the votes.
On May 20, 2019, Volodymyr Zelensky officially became President of Ukraine by taking the oath of office.
Experts say that one of the secrets of his success in the election is that Ukrainians voted not so much for Zelensky as against Poroshenko. The fact that Zelensky said he was only going for one presidential term was also a significant factor.
Experts predicted a drop in Zelensky’s rating almost immediately after announcing the election results. But this did not happen even after a year in power.
In addition, Time and Politico readers also recognized Zelensky as the most influential person in the world and Europe.
A brief biography of the President
Zelensky began his journey in Kryvyi Rih, Dnepropetrovsk region. The President was born in 1978 in the family of a professor of cybernetics. Due to his father’s work in his childhood, he lived for four years in the Mongolian Erdenet. Returning to Kryvyi Rih, the future President became seriously interested in creativity – he played in the theater of miniatures. In 1995-2000, he studied at the Kyiv National Economic University, specializing in jurisprudence, and qualified as a lawyer. At the university, he joined the local KVN team “Zaporizhzhya-Kryvyi Rih-Transit.” From 1997 to 2003, he was an actor, scriptwriter, and artistic director of the KVN “Kvartal 95” team from 2003-2011.
