#servant of the people

[harri-etvane]

Because we have dignity and we will not allow our freedom to be taken away from us. Because we have to protect our freedom in order not to lose our dignity. Because we know and remember one of the important wisdoms we learned long ago: how important it is not to be afraid, how important it is to fight. - Volodymyr Zelenskyy

#volodymyr zelenskyy #volodymyr zelensky #володимир зелеиський #servant of the people #(his speech on the Day of Dignity and Freedom was just... so very moving #as ever) #endlessly thinking about the arthurian legendary vibes of these images tbf #also endlessly thinking about the way he uses 'we' in his speeches #that instant connection

[drthrvn]

legit forgot that they made Polish remake of "Servant of the people" 💀💀💀

i've already seen jokes about this dude becoming actual president of Poland in the future

#also i've seen this actor saying like NO I DON'T PLAY VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY PLEASE REMEMBER THAT #ukraine #poland #polish tag #servant of the people #sluha narodu

[whereisyourpippinnow]

“We have our own path. A different path? Our own path. Ours. Different from yours.”

Very soon there will be two Victory Days in Ukraine. And someone won't have any. — Happy Victory over Nazism Day!

#servant of the people #ukraine #russian invasion of ukraine #volodymyr zelenskyy #volodymyr zelensky #moje #sorry i had to #i choked when he said it #no but seriously these two speech for 8 and 9 of may are amazing #whoever wrote these speaches #they get it they really get it

[misspeppermint2003]

Drawings of Other Nickelodeon characters as World Politicians

I made these drawings of four of my favourite Nickelodeon characters as world politicians.

1st top left: Drawing of Veronica as former British Prime Minister Liz Truss

1st top right: Picture of former British Prime Minister Liz Truss

2nd top left: Drawing of Stanley S. SquarePants as former British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg

2nd top right: Picture of former British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg

1st bottom left: Drawing of Jazz Fenton as Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas

1st bottom right: Picture of Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas

2nd bottom left: Drawing of Lincoln Loud as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

2nd bottom right: Picture of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

#nickelodeon #nicktoons #the loud house #spongebob squarepants #the fairly oddparents #danny phantom #world leaders #politicians #politics #lolitics #volodymyr zelensky #kaja kallas #nick clegg #liz truss #colouring pencil paintings #colouring pencil drawings #drawings #paintings #servant of the people #sluga naroda #sluha narodu #kvartal 95

[is-this-working]

Always knew he'd rock them glasses ;)

#president zelenskyy #russian invasion of ukraine #ukraine #volodymyr zelenskyy #zelensky #zelenskyy #glasses #cutie #then vs now #servant of the people #Kvartal95

[blorbo-of-the-people]

Servant of the People ✦ 2x08

#sluha narodu #sluga naroda #Слуга Народу #Servant of the People #sotp2 #vasily petrovich goloborodko #Volodymyr Zelenskiy #Volodymyr Zelenskyy #Володимир Зелеиський #my gifs #it's been a hot minute #anyway #his skin is GLOWING #golden boy

[laissezferre]

one gifset per episode servant of the people | sluha narodu s2e13

#this was too goddamn prophetic wth #kvartal95 truly playing cassandra in the year 2016 #servant of the people #vasya #volodymyr zelenskyy #mine #edits #thoughts #sotpseries

[ojamajomary]

This year’s super sentai is a surprisingly superb... do I missed that Gira Hastie  is lost orphaned royalty spoiler leak?

#ohsama sentai kingohger #royal sentai kingohger #king ohger #once upon a time #ouat #joshua wong #servant of the people #zelensky #Volodymyr Zelenskyy #the prince by niccolo machiavelli #princess knight #osamu tezuka #ribbon knight #princess sapphire #isekai mmorpg #super sentai

[blue-cherry-dust]

Bonus:

Servant of the People - S03E01

#servant of the people #sluha narodu #Слуга народу #vasil petrovych holoborodko #volodymyr zelensky #yuri ivanovch chuiko #stanislav boklan #Василь Петрович Голобородько #Володимир Зеленський #Юрій Іванович Чуйко #Станіслав Боклан #3 gifs not good not bad #anyways these gifs might be the first thing i've ever posted #let me know how they look :) #volodymyr zelenskyy #volodymyr zelenskiy #s03 #s03e01 #myedit

[yurivanovich]

If I had a nickel every time I have my old man du jour has a party horn, and demonstrated it to their unamused meow meow -

I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice.

#servant of the people #yuri ivanovich #vasily petrovich #an man and his cat #ojisama to neko #I LOVE BOTH IF YOU CANNOT TELL

[ougonnotaiyou]

I rarely post my art here but sometimes I make an exception. 😉

Alexandr Domogarov and his typical Russian reaction to the ongoing war probably disappointed many of us. Or not? He’s Russian after all, so I’m not really surprised.

But his character stands still.

Side note: In “Servant of the People” there was one special scene where our beloved Zelenskyy incarnated a Cossack (and many others) which was quite funny. 😁 Indeed, Ze has a greater right to represent a Cossack than Domogarov. W dodatku, nie bijcie mnie proszę, nawet bardziej pasuje do książkowego rysopisu “najpiękniejszego mołojca Ukrainy”. 😂 😂 😂

#Bohun #Jurko Bohun #Ogniem i Mieczem #Henryk Sienkiewicz #With Fire and Sword #servant of the people

[harri-etvane]

Working trip of the President of Ukraine to Kharkiv region [x]

#volodymyr zelenskyy #servant of the people #volodymyr zelensky #володимир зелеиський #(god these pictures and the video from the visit I just! #he lights up when he's around kids. - he's such a papa bear it makes me want to cry #he listens to them all so patiently and is so very gentle in his face and his voice and everything) #(I love so many things about Ze but one of those things is his capacity to look toward the future of Ukraine & her people #isn't that just beautiful though? in the midst of all this)

[megaladyrocker]

Art imitates life.

#sluga naroda #vasily petrovych goloborodko #yuri ivanovich chuiko #servant of the people #kvartal95 #Слуга народу #meme

[chuiko]

I know I've made a post like this before but now that I'm seriously revisiting the series (with the specific intent of figuring out a timeline) this is how I'd plot things out.

This is gonna be long, I'm not sure how to best organize it. Some important stuff is in later points.

• First, s03 is getting sent to 2015-2016, not 2019. It's impossible for Obama to have been president during s01 if s03 was three years later. I completely understand the real-world decision (it was released in 2018, likely as a lead-in to the 2019 presidential campaign), but it just isn't going to work here.

• A Hillary Clinton-like figure is seen at the G7 meeting, so I'm going to have Vasya's reinstatement (in order to unify Ukraine) happen in (early?) 2017.

• The initial election of Goloborodko is in the pre-Maidan election year of 2015, March 29th if we're going to be specific. This is because Yanukovych wasn't ousted—in fact, he wasn't even President. And Vasya's predecessor clearly didn't run away, likely because Chuiko convinced him not to.

• Speaking of: Chuiko's existence is a HUGE difference between SotP and OTL (our timeline). He's been an institution of power for 25 years (in 2015) with an amazing eye for keeping things stable. The Orange Revolution obviously still happened, and so did the Euromaidan, but in this tl I'm going to have him be instrumental in smoothing over Russia's geopolitical anxieties. Just imagine Yuri's smooth assurances to a frenzied Kremlin official that no, there was no CIA coup, he's even still the Prime Minister, everything is still in place, it's fine.

🇷🇺 Russia stuff:

• s03 references Russian occupation, but it wasn't referenced in previous seasons (to my knowledge). I'm going to say the Crimea gambit happened after Yuri and Vasya were both out; it was being planned since Yuri's arrest, but it was Vasya leaving that really sealed the deal. Luhansk and Donetsk weren't little-green-men'd until Ukraine balkanized in s03. Why not right away, like IRL? Well...

• I'm going to make Surkov the Russian president. IRL, rumor has it he was behind the Crimea thing (which was almost entirely bloodless) but had conflict with the L/DPR leadership (specifically Girkin). After Ukraine balkanizes, though, they become Russian protectorates.

• Prior to becoming president (at the end of s01, the phone call), he was the Russian Ambassador to Ukraine (hence why Vasya knows him). This is because without the Orange Revolution freaking out the Kremlin in 2004, his responsibilities were different than OTL and overall he wasn't targeted by as much Kremlin insecurity. AFAIK the Russian MFA strongly prefers career diplomats to political appointees, and this is seen by some as a move by the Kremlin to keep an eye on the MFA, or at least keep its neighbor under a tight watch by giving the position to a Kremlin loyalist.

• Khodorkovsky returns to Russia when Surkov becomes president. He's a minor character, a former-oligarch with some of Vasya's ideals (and stubbornness)

• He's VERY different from Surikov, but for that window where Surikov's president (and when he was PM) if someone says one name people will often be like "which one?!"

• Also, Sergei Viktorovich Lavrov and Sergei Viktorovich Mukhin. This causes some amusement among diplomats who've naturalized to the patrynomic system. Speaking of diplomats...

🇺🇸 US Diplomacy

• The US is studiously not mentioned. This means I can get away with lots :3

• The US is generally treated as a partner more powerful but also much more distant than the EU. Nonetheless, I'm going to have its diplomats behave a bit better and more interestingly than how the EU is portrayed.

• Quick timeline stuff: in 2015-2016, the US is mainly dealing with the Middle East (ISIS, the Iran Deal, Israel diplomacy). It was also investing a lot of effort in fighting international money laundering/corruption. For this reason, the FBI (through the Kyiv Embassy) is going to be working with Mika. I genuinely don't know if the SBU has the ability to access the info to implicate Surikov in freezing Yuri's bank accounts, but I'll have US intel give Mika a hand, or at least corroborate info.

• Bill Burns will be appointed US Ambassador to Ukraine a week or so (bc of Congressional authorization) after Goloborodko is elected. [He served as Ambassador to Russia from 2005-2008, and then as the Under Secretary for Eastern Europe, and then as Deputy Secretary, working on the Iran Deal.] Slightly awkwardly, he retired in Nov. 2014... so he would have come out of retirement in March/April 2015 to be appointed (does that make him a political appointee?). It's clear this wasn't a routine promotion but a specific choice.

• He's chosen to keep an eye on the situation and report back. Both on the internal situation in Ukrainian politics, and also what the Russians are saying/doing. In my timeline 2014 didn't boil over, but it's tense and making watchers in the US nervous.

• US diplomacy remains publicly very distant—no high profile visits during Vasya's brief tenure. This is to everyone's benefit. Obama does like Vasya and empathizes with having a shit congress. Perhaps once Vasya deals with enough of the Horrors he'll meet Barack on equal(ly fucking exhausted) terms and they'll hit it off.

• Burns, however, listens very intently to what the Gang of Five (Oksana, Sergei, Olga, Mika, Ivan) tells him.

• Burns is dismissed as Ambassador by President Surikov, who doesn't trust him getting along well with Vasya + crew. Publicly, to avoid drama, he resigns his post "of his own free will." The Embassy, however, will work just fine without him :)

• Burns recognizes the character flaws of Vasya and his cabinet but still highly recommends them. He's a reason Pres. Clinton works w/ the G7 to reinstate him. Russia (still under Surkov) is also supportive of his reinstatement because the whole thing's an absolute clusterfuck. However, everyone agrees that Yuri is also necessary; he and Vasya are both missing something vitally important by themselves. China, working on its Belt and Road Initiative, also wants the country to not be in pieces.

• Every time Vasya or someone in his cabinet (probably Sergei) stand up for themselves, US diplomats are more comfortable with them. Sycophants are deeply untrustworthy. It's easy to predict what someone will do if they genuinely want the best for their country; purely selfish motives are much less easy to negotiate with.

💸The Oligarchs💸

• Nemchuk kicks off everything with his suggestion the oligarchs stay out of the remaining 2015 campaign. He's also the least contentious of the three. If anyone is going to see the utility of addressing corruption in order to have more stability & contact with Western corporations, it's going to be him. He's also the most like Khodorkovsky's businessman past-self and will get along with him (and thus Russian Pres. Surkov) the best.

• 50/50 chance Burns (maybe along with the Russians) is part of an Iran Deal backchannel. Not only would this piss off some government officials, but Roizman and Mamatov would probably get in another hissy fit, unless Crimea Tatars are Sunni factionalists enough to be on generally bad terms with Iran (the main Shia superpower). Although I wouldn't put it past either Roizman to say something generalizing and Mamatov to get heated. Nemchuk is just done with everyone's shit.

• Nemchuk saw the Khodorkovsky arrest back in 2003 and went "abso-fucking-lutely not."

One last thing:

• After Goloborodko's IMF speech, John Oliver made a video about the IMF's predatory policies.

#sluga naroda #servant of the people #this is so long. thats what she said

[misspeppermint2003]

⭐ Friday Vote Battle (Round 1) ⭐

#fandom #fandom questions #character quiz #quizzes #rounds #the adventures of tintin #tintin and snowy #tintin #taott #tintin et milou #tintin movie #films and tv shows #servant of the people #sluga naroda #sluha narodu #sluga narodu #kvartal 95 #polsat #cartoons

[is-this-working]

Fun fact n°8:

"Servant of the People" is, unsurprisingly, my comfort show. I've lost track of how many times I've watched it (we've passed the 20x a long time ago). Whether I be alone or with someone as I sit back and enjoy the comedy, I always make the same commentary whenever Zelenskyy does something insane/unhinged/wtf on screen:

"Ladies and Gentlemen, the President of Ukraine."

I mean how crazy is it that this actor who:

🔸dressed up as a grandma to throw cakes out of a moving van

🔸hung upside down from his ankle in a forest

🔸jumped into the water while shouting "yahoooo"

🔸played a cross-eyed clone of himself

🔸spoke with nuts in his mouth

🔸made countless putin jokes

is now an icon of resistance against the world's biggest terrorist state?

Naturally I wondered if Maks ever watched the show, hence Chapter 8. I like to think he did.

Do you think he watched it? If so, when/why and what was his reaction? 🎬

#volodymyr zelenskyy #ukraine #president zelenskyy #zelenskyy #russian invasion of ukraine #zelensky #bodyguard #maksym donets #voksym #ao3 writer #ao3 wip #ao3 #ao3 fanfic #fanfiction #fanfic #servant of the people #kvartal95