This Is How Much Money Volodymyr Zelensky Is Actually Worth

May 2024 · 2 minute read

The financial success of the Kvartal 95 company and its projects soon spilled over the edge of the entertainment business into national (and later international) politics. While the TV series was gaining wide recognition in the country, Volodymyr Zelensky and Kvartal 95 had another idea — they established a new political party in 2018, calling it Servant of the People. It took Zelensky only a year to step through the threshold of the Ukrainian presidential palace as a real president, explains Emily Nussbaum for The New Yorker.

Throughout his presidential campaign, Zelensky was supported by many people from the show business, using the power of media for his own advantage. As per Ukrainian news outlet Ukrainska Pravda, not all members of his presidential campaign team were revealed to the public. One is Andriy Bogdan, the lawyer of the infamous Ukrainian oligarch Igor Kolomoisky, who worked as a mediator between Zelensky and the oligarch. Another is lawyer Serhiy Nyzhny and his company Hillmont Partners, a firm which has a long history of collaborating with Kvartal 95. Furthermore, brothers Serhiy and Borys Shefiry, Ukrainian film moguls, also took part in the campaign.

After winning the presidential position, Zelensky filled the positions around him with people he knew well — people from the entertainment industry. Bogdan, Kolomoisky's lawyer (and former Ukrainian commissioner for anti-corruption policy), became Head of the Presidential Administration. Former executive producer of the Kvartal 95 studio, Sergei Trofimov, became First Deputy Head of the AP, while Serhiy Shefir, one of the founders of Kvartal 95, took the position of First Aide to the President. Even the screenwriter of "Servant of the People," Yuriy Kostyuk, got the job as Deputy Head of the AP, reports Ukrainska Pravda.

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