A comedian and actor with no prior political experience, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, 41, beat incumbent Petro Poroshenko by a landslide, promising change to a country at war with Russian-backed forces and facing some of the worst poverty in Europe. Now, one of Zelenskiy’s biggest challenges will be meeting the expectations of voters.
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