KIEV, Ukraine -- Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a comedian with no political experience who plays the country’s president on a TV show, has won Ukraine’s presidential election in a landslide, according ...

Volodymyr Zelenskiy's only connection to politics is the role he plays in a hit TV series about a man who accidentally becomes Ukraine's president. He's leading in polls ahead of Sunday's elections.

KYIV -- Fact has followed fiction. Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a comic actor who plays a common man accidentally catapulted into an exasperated Ukrainian presidency on TV, has won big in the country's ...

Zelenskiy, 41, also took the first round of the election on March 31. The former entertainer and political novice recently starred in a popular TV series, "Servant of the People," in which he ...

Ukranian comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy isn't a politician — but he plays the president on TV. As luck would have it, life is on its way to imitating art as Zelenskiy today came out victorious in ...

Comedian and leading Ukrainian presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaks to reporters following the closing of balloting at his election night gathering on March 31, 2019 in Kiev, Ukraine.

On “Servant of the People”, the Ukrainian TV series he has starred in since the fall of 2015, Zelenskiy plays Vasyl Holoborodko, a high school teacher abruptly propelled into the presidency ...

A real shot. Until his election in April, Zelenskiy was a comedian best known for playing the president of Ukraine on TV. His wildly popular show was called "Servant of the People." "He's quite a ...

That party is led by Ivan Bakanov, legal counsel for the TV studio Kvartel 95, which produces Zelenskiy’s show. Zelenskiy’s comedy consistently tops Ukranian TV ratings and has a large ...

Volodymyr Zelenskiy in a promotion image for the TV comedy "Servant of the People." ... like his character in the TV series, he would focus on graft as president. "Corruption is everywhere.

TV comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy sworn in as Ukraine’s new president, disbands parliament. By Associated Press. May 19, 2019 ...

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s new president, a comedian before he turned to statecraft, made a dramatic entrance to the political stage Monday by disbanding parliament minutes after his ...