Serhiy Nakhmanovych Shefir ( uk, Сергій Нахманович Шефір; born 25 May 1964) is a

Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * So ...

politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a ...

and

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

. He is the founder of Quarter-95 Studio. Since 25 May 2019 he is the First Assistant to the

President of Ukraine The president of Ukraine ( uk, Президент України, Prezydent Ukrainy) is the head of state of Ukraine. The president represents the nation in international relations, administers the foreign political activity of the state, condu ...

Volodymyr Zelenskyy Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy, ; russian: Владимир Александрович Зеленский, Vladimir Aleksandrovich Zelenskyy, (born 25 January 1978; also transliterated as Zelensky or Zelenskiy) is a Ukrainian politicia ...

. In September 2021 he survived an assassination attempt.

Early life

Born on 25 May 1964 in Kryvyi Rih, he graduated from the Kryvyi Rih Mining Institute. Later, together with his brother Boris Shefir, he created scripts for

KVN ''KVN'' (russian: КВН, an abbreviation of , ''Klub Vesyólykh i Nakhódchivykh'' or ''Ka-Ve-En'', "Club of the Funny and Inventive") is a Russian (and formerly Soviet) humour TV show and an international competition where teams (usually comp ...

teams: "Minsk", "Makhachkala tramps", "Zaporozhye-Kryvyi Rih-Transit" (CIS Champion), "95th quarter", "95th quarter", "XX century team", "XXI century team". In the status of director, producer, screenwriter, he participated in the "Kryvyi Rih Spaniard" and "Zaporozhye-Kryvyi Rih-Transit" teams.

Film career

He was screenwriter and producer of more than a dozen films and series. The films ''

Love in the Big City 3 ''Love in Vegas'' (russian: Любовь в большом городе 3, Lyubov v bolshom gorode, ''Love in the Big City 3'') is a 2014 Russian-Ukrainian romantic comedy film directed by Maryus Vaysberg and David Dodson. The film was co-produced ...

'', ''

Rzhevsky Versus Napoleon ''Rzhevsky Versus Napoleon'' (russian: Ржевский против Наполеона, Rzhevsky protiv Napoleona; originally planned title "Наполеон капут!" ''Napoleon goes Kaput!'') is a Russian 2012 comedy film, sequel to the 200 ...

'' and ''

8 First Dates ''8 First Dates'' (russian: 8 первых свиданий, 8 pervykh svidaniy; uk, 8 перших побачень, 8 pershykh pobachen') is a 2012 Russian-Ukrainian romantic comedy directed by David Dodson and Aleksandr Malyarevsky. It stars ...

'' were included in the list of 10 highest-grossing films in the history of Ukraine, according to Strana.ua. The film "I'll be there" () received the main prize of the

Kinotavr Kinotavr (russian: Кинотавр), also known as the Sochi Open Russian Film Festival is an open film festival held in the resort city of Sochi, Russia annually in June since 1991, until it was cancelled in the wake of the 2022 Russian invasio ...

festival. Together with his brother Boris, he was the producer of the TV series ''

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'' and ''Matchmakers'', which were recognized by

VTsIOM Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM or VCIOM) ( rus, Всероссийский центр изучения общественного мнения – ВЦИОМ, Vserossiysky tsentr izucheniya obshchestvennogo mneniya) is a state-ow ...

as leaders in show ratings.

Assassination attempt

On 21 May 2019 he was appointed First Assistant to the 6th

. On 22 September 2021, at about 10:00 am

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, near the village of Lesniki in

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

, Shefir's car was fired upon. 18 bullets hit the car; the driver was wounded. Shefir himself was not injured. The

Prosecutor General of Ukraine The prosecutor general of Ukraine (also procurator general of Ukraine, uk, Генеральний прокурор України) heads the system of official prosecution in courts known as the Office of the Prosecutor General ( uk, Офіс ...

Iryna Venediktova Iryna Valentynivna Venediktova ( uk, Ірина Валентинівна Венедіктова; born 21 September 1978) is a Ukrainian politician, academic, and lawyer, previously a prosecutor general of Ukraine from March 2020 to July 2022. S ...

, announced that proceedings had been launched with preliminary qualification under the article "attempted murder of two or more persons". After the incident, Zelenskyy recorded a video message, saying that he did not know who was behind the assassination attempt on his first assistant, but promised a “strong response”.

References

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