When comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy strode onto stage on Sunday to claim victory i...
KIEV - When comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy strode onto stage on Sunday to claim victory in Ukraine’s presidential election, he was accompanied by several teammates who could become familiar faces in Ukrainian politics in the coming months.
But Zelenskiy remains something of an unknown, celebrated less for his plans and policies than for his role in a popular Ukrainian TV series, playing a fictional president. Zelenskiy has not announced who he plans to appoint to government roles and on Sunday several members of his team said it was still too early to announce any names.
Walking in with him was Andrei Bogdan, a lawyer few Ukrainians would recognize, whose unofficial role on Zelenskiy’s team was revealed by journalists during the campaign. Dmytro Razumkov, a political adviser on Zelenskiy’s team who spent election day meeting diplomats and giving media interviews at the HQ, has previously said Bogdan was involved in Zelenskiy’s campaign “as his old friend”, according to Ukrainian media outlet Bihus.
Shefir and his brother Boris are long-time producers of Zelenskiy’s TV shows. They are among several members of his comedy team, formed in his southern Ukraine hometown of Kryvyi Rih.
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