Who is Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy?
A: He is a Ukrainian politician who serves as the sixth and current
president of Ukraine.
Zelenskyy is a former what?
A: Actor and comedian.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy was born to parents of what
religion?
A: Jewish.
When was he born?
A: On 25 January 1978 in Kryvyi Rih, then in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist
Republic.
His father, Oleksandr Zelenskyy, is a what?
A: 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, used to work as a what?
A: An engineer.
His grandfather, Semyon (Simon) Ivanovych Zelenskyy,
served as an infantryman, reaching what rank?
A: A Colonel.
How did Semyon's father and three brothers die?
A: In the Holocaust.
In March 2022 Zelenskyy revealed that his
great-grandparents had been killed after what?
A: German troops burned their home to the ground during a massacre.
Where did he live prior to starting elementary school?
A: Zelenskyy lived for four years in the Mongolian city of Erdenet, where
his father worked.
Zelenskyy grew up speaking what language?
A: Russian.
At the age of 16, he passed the Test of English as a
Foreign Language and received a what?
A: An education grant to study in Israel, but his father did not allow him
to go.
He later earned what degree from the Kryvyi Rih
Institute of Economics?
A: A law degree but did not go on to work in the legal field.
At age 17, he joined his local team competing in what?
A: The KVN comedy competition team.
In 2008, he starred in what feature film?
A: Love in the Big City, and its sequel, Love in the Big City 2.
Zelenskyy continued his movie career with what films?
A: Office Romance, Our Time in 2011 and with Rzhevsky Versus Napoleon in
2012.
When was Love in the Big City 3 released?
A: In January 2014.
In August 2014, Zelenskyy spoke out against the
intention of the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture to do what?
A: To ban Russian artists from Ukraine.
Since 2015, Ukraine has banned Russian artists and
other Russian works of culture from what?
A: Entering Ukraine.
In 2018, the romantic comedy Love in the Big City 2
starring Zelenskyy was what?
A: Banned in Ukraine.
In 2015, Zelenskyy became the star of what television
series?
A: Servant of the People, where he played the role of the president of
Ukraine.
In the series, Zelenskyy's character was a high-school
history teacher in his 30s who won the presidential
election after what?
A: A viral video showed him ranting against government corruption in
Ukraine.
In March 2018, members of Zelenskyy's production
company Kvartal 95 registered a new political party called what?
A: Servant of the People – the same name as the television program that
Zelenskyy had starred in over the previous three years.
Zelenskyy denied any immediate plans to enter politics
and said he had only registered the party name to what?
A: To prevent it being appropriated by others.
widespread speculation that he was planning to run. As early as October 2018, three months before his campaign announcement and six months before the presidential election, he was already a frontrunner
On 31 December 2018, less than four months from the
election, Zelenskyy announced what?
A: His candidacy for president of Ukraine.
21 April 2019, he received 73 per cent of the vote to Poroshenko's 25 per cent and was elected what?
A: President of Ukraine.