“I obviously mistook the dress code,” confessed Valery Klimov standing tieless onstage where Ukraine’s president sat clad in his Sunday-best in Kyiv, Ukraine, on June 20. The newly-elected president replied to the head of the Union of Ukrainian Entrepreneurs not to fret and instantly removed his own tie in front of the audience of seven hundred business leaders. As the president next welcomed me on stage, I inquired whether I should also detach my neckwear. President Volodymyr Zelensky teasingly replied: “It’s OK. Your tie is green.”
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President Volodymyr Zelensky enters the stage during the convention of his political party, Servant of the People, in Kyiv on June 9, 2019.
