On New Year’s night in 2019, comedian Volodymyr Zelensky announced that he would run for president of Ukraine. Two weeks before 2020, the U.S. Congress impeached American president Donald Trump – with the reason being improper pressure put on the newly elected president Zelensky. Between these two events is a unique history, which has some parallels with the Ukrainian series “Servant of the People”, starring Zelensky, and some analogies to the U.S. political drama House of Cards, about the intrigues of American politics. In the heart of it all is a single phone call: when, on July 25, 2019, Zelensky called Trump to ask for a favor.
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(FILES) In this file photo taken on Dec. 3, 2019 a computer screen shows a copy of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Report of The Trump-Ukraine Impeachment Inquiry Report in Washington, DC.
