Volodymyr Zelenskyy
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between March 08, 2022 and March 30, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “the star, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, got elected President of Ukraine”; “Presumably Volodymyr Zelenskyy thinks Ukrainians count as a people”. It most often appears alongside Crimea, NATO, Poland.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: March 08, 2022
- Last seen: March 30, 2022
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- Crimea (2 shared issues)
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- NATO (2 shared issues)
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- Poland (2 shared issues)
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- Putin (2 shared issues)
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- Russia (2 shared issues)
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- Ukraine (2 shared issues)
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- US (2 shared issues)
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- Achilles (1 shared issues)
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- Afghan (1 shared issues)
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- America (1 shared issues)
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- American conservatives (1 shared issues)
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- American liberals (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
l. Servant Of The People is a 2015 Ukrainian comedy TV series about a poor teacher who implausibly gets elected President of Ukraine and has to clean up its corrupt politics. It went down in history when the star, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, got elected President of Ukraine in real life, apparently on the strength of his performance. The entire series is available for free on YouTube with English subtitles (though after a few episodes they disappear, and you have to use the Russian subtitles and then auto-translate them into English). I’m a few episodes in and it’s really good, which I guess I should have predicted given the consequences.
Inline links: is available for free on YouTube with English subtitles
As best I can tell, international law on this question centers around a UN-backed covenant which says that “all peoples have the right to self-determination”. So are Texans/Kurds/Scots/Palestinians a “people”? International law makes no effort to answer this question. Presumably Volodymyr Zelenskyy thinks Ukrainians count as a people, and Vladmir Putin isn’t so sure.
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