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In Zelensky, Steven Derix describes the impressive life story of an actor who played a president on TV before being thrust into the role of real-life wartime leader. Millions have admired Volodymyr Zelensky’s staunch leadership during Russia’s barbaric invasion of Ukraine. Few know his rich and extraordinary life, which is full of surprising twists. At the age of 20, the Jewish boy from the provincial town of Kryvyi Rih was a star of the stage. At 30, he headed a multimillion-dollar TV company. At 40, he took on his country’s corrupt political and business elite in the hit TV series Servant of the People. Then he became Ukraine’s real president and a hero of the free world. ‘If I am elected, they will first sling mud at me,’ he said, ‘then they will learn to respect me, and finally cry when I leave.’
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Steven Derix is a journalist at the prestigious Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad. Together with Dolf de Groot he wrote Blood Brothers: The Downfall of Team Rabobank, which uncovered Michael Boogerd’s doping fraud. From 2014 to 2020 he was NRC correspondent for Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. |
| Category: | Biography |
| ISBN: | 9781912454778 |
| Publisher: | Canbury Press |
| On sale: | August 2022 |
| Format: | Paperback |
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