Volodymyr Zelensky has been President of Ukraine since May 2019. He is known throughout the world for tirelessly demanding weapons for his country in order to stand up to Russia. Only with more weapons would peace in Europe be safe!
What exactly is g…
Volodymyr Zelensky has been President of Ukraine since May 2019. He is known throughout the world for tirelessly demanding weapons for his country in order to stand up to Russia. Only with more weapons would peace in Europe be safe!
What exactly is going on here? How could Zelensky rise from actor to president and be the darling of the Western media? Who does the self-proclaimed “servant of the people” really serve?
On the big stage as an actor
Zelensky studied law. In 1997, he founded the cabaret group “Kvartal 95”. Just a few years before his election as president, he had a role in the satirical TV series “Servant of the People” on the popular TV channel 1+1 in which Zelensky acts as a history professor who unexpectedly ascends to become Ukraine’s president and governs the country “as a fighter against corruption”. At the end of the series, Zelensky saves Ukraine from national bankruptcy and unites the country. At the end of 2016, a film bearing the same name “Servant of the People” was released and in 2017, a party with the same name was registered. Zelensky announces his candidacy for the presidential election on New Year’s Eve 2018 on the 1+1 television Channel. He said he was a “fighter against corruption”. While his image as an “anti-corruption fighter” was built up in the media, a population in crisis elected him president in 2019.
At the time, Florian Hassel, editor of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, saw Zelensky’s rise as an expression of the “sick Ukrainian system: It was only possible because Ukrainian media are dominated by oligarchs who decide who gets on their TV stations – and who doesn’t.” Why so little enthusiasm?
The aggravating past
The willy piano player: Among other things, Zelensky made a name for himself as a “wienie piano player” who – sorry – but – with his best piece – ostensibly plays the piano in public. He also danced in a vulgar show in high heels and leather. Some see this as a mockery of traditional Cossack dancing.
Pandora Papers: Starting in 2012, Zelensky was co-founder of a network of offshore companies [explanation of term: offshore companies: Moving the company’s headquarters abroad to avoid paying taxes] in Cyprus, Belize and the British Virgin Islands – including the “Maltex” company. Millions of dollars were moved and hidden from the tax authorities through these companies. Just two weeks before the first round of the presidential election, the ownership of “Maltex” suddenly changed. The shares previously held by Zelensky and his wife Olena were transferred free of charge to the entrepreneur Serhij Schefir, a close partner of Zelensky. This transaction is interpreted as an attempt by Zelensky to conceal illegal assets before the presidential election.
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