Slenski is from crevidi. That's a small town in the middle of the crane. There wasn't anything special about his upbringing or his life prior to him becoming a famous secran comedian. He also founded a production studio, and his promote studio was very successful in ukraine. They produced e shows, films. Most of them are comedy movies. Nobody would expect him to e where he is right now.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy went from a middling peacetime president to a heroic wartime president. Kyiv Independent’s Oleksiy Sorokin explains from an undisclosed location in western Ukraine. Vox’s Emily VanDerWerff also explains, but from her home in Los Angeles.
This episode was produced by Will Reid, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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