Volodymyr Volodymyrovych Rafeienko is a Ukrainian writer, novelist, and poet. From 1992 to 2018, he wrote his works in Russian, was mainly published in Russia and was considered a representative of Russian literature. He is the winner of the Russian Literary Prizes "Russian Prize" and "New Literature" (2014). In 2014, after moving to Kyiv, he studied Ukrainian. He later began writing his new novel in Ukrainian and became a full representative of Ukrainian literature. In 2019 he published his first novel in Ukrainian "Mondegreen ."
Volodymyr Ivanovych Samiilenko was a Ukrainian poet, satirist, dramatist, and translator. Samiilenko was best noted as a satirist for his combination of poetry and political humour, and he was praised by intellectual leader Ivan Franko for his usage of lyricism.
Volodymyr Pavlovych Stakhiv was a Ukrainian nationalist politician and journalist who was a member of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Ukrainian national government. He was the brother of Yevhen Stakhiv.
Volodymyr Yeremchenko, better known under his pen name Volodymyr Vladko, was a Ukrainian fiction writer, journalist and theatre critic. He was a member of the Union of Soviet Writers (1934).
Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy is a Ukrainian politician who has been serving as the sixth president of Ukraine since 2019. He was formerly a comedian and actor.
François-Marie Arouet was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe) and historian. Known by his nom de plume M. de Voltaire, he was famous for his wit, in addition to his criticism of Christianity—especially of the Roman Catholic Church—and of slavery. Voltaire was an advocate of freedom of speech, freedom of religion and separation of church and state.
