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'''Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy'''{{family name footnote|Oleksandrovych|Zelenskyy|lang=Eastern Slavic}}{{efn|{{lang-uk|Володимир Олександрович Зеленський|link=no}}, {{IPA-uk|woloˈdɪmɪr olekˈsɑndrowɪdʒ zeˈlɛnʲsʲkɪj|pron}}}}{{efn|also romanized as '''Zelensky''' or '''Zelenskiy'''<br/>Zelenskyy's name lacks an established Latin-alphabet spelling, and it has been romanized in various ways: for example ''Volodymyr Zelensky'' or ''Zelenskyi'' [[Romanization of Ukrainian|from Ukrainian]], or ''Vladimir Zelenskiy'' [[Romanization of Russian|from Russian]].<ref name=Confusion>{{Cite web|url=https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/zelensky-zelenskiy-zelenskyy-spelling-confusion-doesn-t-help-ukraine|title=Zelensky, Zelenskiy, Zelenskyy: Spelling Confusion Doesn't Help Ukraine|last=Dickinson|first=Peter|date=9 June 2019|publisher=Atlantic Council|language=en-gb|access-date=10 June 2019|archive-date=11 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190611093721/https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/zelensky-zelenskiy-zelenskyy-spelling-confusion-doesn-t-help-ukraine|url-status=live}}</ref> ''Zelenskyy'' is the transliteration on his passport, and his administration has used it since he assumed the presidency in 2019.<ref name=Confusion/><ref>{{Cite tweet |number=1138086685181456385 |user=IuliiaMendel |title=Dear colleagues, this is the official form of the last name that the President has in his passport. This was decided by the passport service of Ukraine. The President won't be offended if BBC standards assume different transliteration |access-date=10 June 2019 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112005504/https://twitter.com/IuliiaMendel/status/1138086685181456385 |archive-date=12 November 2020 |url-status=live |last=Mendel |first=Iuliia}}</ref>|name=|group=}} (born 25 January 1978) is a Ukrainian politician and former
Born to a [[History of the Jews in Ukraine|Ukrainian Jewish]] family, Zelenskyy grew up as a native [[Russian language in Ukraine|Russian]] speaker in [[Kryvyi Rih]], a major city of [[Dnipropetrovsk Oblast]] in central Ukraine. He obtained a degree in law from the [[Kryvyi Rih Institute of Economics]]. He then pursued a comedy career and created the production company [[Kvartal 95]], which produced films, cartoons, and TV shows including the TV series ''[[Servant of the People (2015 TV series)|Servant of the People]]'', in which Zelenskyy played a fictional Ukrainian president. The series aired from 2015 to 2019 and was immensely popular. [[Servant of the People|A political party]] with the same name as the TV show was created in March 2018 by employees of Kvartal 95.
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