Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, may be more popular in his country than Vladimir Putin is in Russia, but he’s facing his first crisis since taking office in May, and it could undermine his approval, at home and abroad. The trouble has to do with Igor Kolomoisky, a billionaire and the owner of the channel that distributed Zelensky’s TV shows when the president was a comedian.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (C) meets with the controversial oligarch and his former business associate Ihor Kolomoisky on Sept. 10, 2019.
