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		</div><p>Comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy has been given an overwhelming directive to produce change after collecting more than 70% of the votes in the Ukrainian election.</p>
<p>With nearly all ballots counted, he has 73% of the vote compared to incumbent President Petro Poroshenko’s 24%.</p>
<p>Monitors for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said the election took place with respect for <em>“fundamental freedoms”</em> and set the stage for a <em>“democratic and orderly transfer of power”.</em></p>
<p>The first-time candidate, who stars in a TV sitcom about a high school teacher who becomes president almost by accident, appeared to have won in both the west and the east, a rarity in post-Soviet Ukraine.</p>
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<p>Mr Zelenskiy campaigned on unifying Ukraine, which is torn by bitter debates over national identity and a bloody conflict with Russia-backed separatists.</p>
<p>The separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine and Russia’s annexation of Crimea are likely to dominate the agenda of a leader with no previous political or government experience.</p>
<p>Mr Zelenskiy, a Russian speaker from central Ukraine, vowed to step up efforts to bring the east back under Kiev’s wing but offered no details on what that entailed.</p>
<p>His campaign adviser, Oleksandr Danylyuk, said the new leader’s team <em>“does not have a magic wand”</em> to deal with the issue of the occupied territories but favours jump-starting talks with Russia via European mediators.</p>
<p>The president-elect’s advisers also reject the idea of the Ukrainian government using force to regain control of the east and of Crimea, Mr Danylyuk said.</p>
<p>Russia seized Crimea in 2014 in a move that Ukraine and almost all of the world views as illegal.</p>
<p>Mr Zelenskiy will also have to face off against Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has ruled his country for nearly two decades, if he wants to mend relations with Moscow.</p>
<p>Although polls predicted the untested comedian’s win, Mr Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday it was too soon to congratulate Mr Zelenskiy, much less talk about Russia-Ukraine cooperation, since the election results were not yet official.</p>
<p>The leaders of the United States, the European Union, Germany and France have phoned Mr Zelenskiy to give their congratulations.</p>
<p>Moscow <em>“respects the choice of the Ukrainian people”</em> and will wait for concrete steps by the new Ukrainian leader before making judgments, Mr Peskov said.</p>
<p>Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev posted on his Facebook page the election results in Ukraine showed <em>“there is a chance to improve the relations with our country after all”</em>.</p>
<p>Mr Medvedev, whose government has been supplying the Ukrainian separatists with weapons and manpower, expressed hope Mr Zelenskiy would be <em>“pragmatic and responsible”</em> in his approach to the conflict in the east.</p>
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