Today, on March 17, 2022, a presentation of the book “I am here. We are here. We all are Ukraine. The phenomenon of Vladimir Zelensky.”
“On January 25, 2022, the Ukrainian president did not celebrate his forty-fourth birthday because he spent it at work… Zelensky has been criticized for populism since the beginning of his presidency. But not this time,” the book says.
The book was published in the Ukrainian language by the publishing center “Academia”. Its author is a Polish journalist, translator and diplomat Natalia Brizhko-Zapur. She took up the study of the phenomenon of President Zelenski only because she is well versed in the history of Poland and Ukraine, in the struggle of the two neighboring countries for European values, as well as in political movements and personalities.
After gaining invaluable experience in the 1980s in the anti-communist opposition movement, Natalia spent more than 30 years devoting herself to journalism and later to diplomacy. In the early 2000s she was an advisor at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Kiev.
As Vasyl Teremko, the head of projects of the All-Ukrainian Center “Academia”, notes, it was interesting for the publisher to publish this book in Ukraine, because it truthfully traced the phenomenal phenomenon of unity of Ukrainians around their President. Who is the current leader of Ukraine as a person, a citizen and President?
Who are his friends and team, opponents and enemies? Why did Ukraine and Russia choose different paths after the collapse of the USSR? This is the observational and analytical story of a Polish journalist.
“So Zelensky’s strength in influencing world public opinion lies in the content of his speeches, which directly relate to feelings and universal human values, which have been somewhat devalued in recent years due to the flow of political PR…. This book neither assesses nor summarizes. It reviews current events, reminiscent of treading on thin ice. World history knows many publications in which the analysis presented often turns out to be erroneous, and the predictions are inaccurate. After all, time must be merciless to premature conclusions. Therefore, what I offer the reader today is only a reflection of the moment, “- says the author in the book.
The book is published in a modern and convenient format. It tells about periods in the life of Vladimir Zelenski, in particular before the full-scale invasion of Russia and during the war.
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