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Moscow: Russian TV was on Wednesday set to start airing a popular comedy series starring Ukraine's actor-turned-president Volodymyr Zelensky as new efforts were underway to de-escalate a conflict in east Ukraine. The Russian premiere of "Servant of the People", to screen on the entertainment channel TNT, comes two days after Russian President Vladimir Putin and Zelensky met in Paris for their first face-to-face talks. Zelensky, 41, is a former comedian and TV actor who shot to fame in ex-Soviet Ukraine after portraying a schoolteacher in "Servant of the People" who becomes president when his expletive-laden tirade goes viral. In April, the celebrity secured a shock election win after capitalising on Ukrainians' despair over mainstream politics, war with Kremlin-backed separatists, poverty and corruption. He also named his party after the show. The series premiered in Ukraine in 2015, becoming one of the most popular TV shows in the war-scarred country. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov … [Read more...] about Russian TV to Air Comedy Starring Ukraine President in Bid to De-escalate Conflict

Video PlayerClose MOSCOW, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- Russia's Federal Security Service has detained a Russian national suspected of planning a terrorist attack against the authorities of the northwestern city of Murmansk, the service said on Wednesday. The suspect, born in 1983, was detained on Tuesday when he tried to remove an improvised explosive device from a cache, it said in a statement. The detainee was suspected to be a supporter of an extremist organization called Right Sector, and the investigating authorities instituted criminal proceedings against the detainee, according to the statement. In November 2014, the Russian Supreme Court banned the activities of the Ukrainian Right Sector in the country, recognizing it as an extremist organization. … [Read more...] about Russia detains suspected terrorist attack plotter