Sergey Mukhin

Sergey Mukhin is a major supporting character of the 2015 Ukrainian political satire comedy television series Servant of the People created and produced by Kvartal 95 and the current Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who was a comedian at that time.
 
He was an actor who starred in mediocre commercials and second-rate films until his childhood friend, a simple history teacher Vasily Goloborodko became president of Ukraine. Vasily offers Mukhin to join his team and become the new Minister of Foreign Affairs in order to finally make their country great. At his new workplace, Sergey thinks that he will be able to relax, but his dreams are being crushed by his excessively responsible assistant Oksana, who is ready to do anything to make a real diplomat out of a slob and a drunkard Mukhin.
 
Sergey Mukhin was portrayed by Ukrainian actor, showman and TV presenter Evgen Koshoviy, who also voiced Chuck in the Ukrainian version of The Angry Birds Movie, Peter Rabbit in the Ukrainian version of Peter Rabbit and Vector Perkins in the Ukrainian version of Despicable Me.
==Personality==
Mukhin seems to be a very cynical, impolite and narrow-minded person, but he is very good at capturing a person's trust, often using alcohol, folk songs and dances. Oksana brought up real politeness and punctuality in the sloppy Mukhin over time. Also, before meeting Oksana and falling in love with her, Sergey was an absolute open womanizer, although he did not admit it, calling himself a "collector". However, Mukhin denied his love for Oksana for a long time too. 
 
Sergey is very fond of joking, which Oksana almost always dislikes due to the inappropriateness and frequent offensiveness of his jokes, and, of course, his special cataclysmic laughter.
==Biography== 
===Servant of the People===
Mukhin was an actor who starred in mediocre commercials and second-rate films until his childhood friend, a simple history teacher Vasily Goloborodko became president of Ukraine. Vasily shows up on the set of a crime movie in which Mukhin plays a minute role of a mafia boss receiving a portion of cocaine and offers Sergey to give this trash job up and join his team to become the new Minister of Foreign Affairs in order to finally make their country great. 
Mukhin agrees to Goloborodko's proposal and arrives at the Verkhovna Rada in his bright red car in sunglasses, as informally as possible, immediately starting to flirt with pretty employees until his assistant Oksana Skovoroda crashes into him, instantly destroying Mukhin's dreams of carefree everyday life. Incredibly responsible Oksana puts Sergey in order physically and actively deals with the order in his head in the course of story, teaching him the traditions and customs of dozens of foreign ambassadors and rulers, whom he will host. And, of course, every time Mukhin admits some blatant violation of etiquette, even without noticing it. Gradually, Mukhin and Oksana not only find a common language, but also fall in love with each other.
Meanwhile, group of powerful oligarchs try to bribe the members of Goloborodko’s team, including Mukhin, to manipulate president, when they realize that the new president of Ukraine is not a puppet of any of them. Businessmen are convinced that they have succeeded when each of the Goloborodko’s team members takes a bribe. The process of taking bribes was captured on camera so that the oligarchs could blackmail Goloborodko, but it turns out that all this was Vasily's plan. Huge amounts of money transferred as bribes are sent to the budget of Ukraine and the oligarchs realize that they have been tricked. 
Mukhin also takes part in the political TV show "Dialog", during which Vasily exposes the organizer of the largest corruption scheme of stealing from the country's budget, which turns out to be the Prime Minister of Ukraine Yuriy Chuiko.
===Servant of the People 2. From love to impeachment===
President Vasily Goloborodko has been in power for almost six months. To stabilize the situation in the country, Goloborodko needs to receive financial assistance from the IMF, which can be provided if reforms are introduced in Ukraine and anti-corruption laws. However, the Verkhovna Rada, which is secretly led by oligarchs, blocks the vote on the package of these laws. 
While Vasily is traveling around Ukraine with Yuriy Chuiko, whom he was forced to release from prison in order to beat the oligarchs together, implementing a plan to break up the coalition, Mukhin and Oksana are forced to detain the head of the IMF Otto Adelweinsteiner for many days, using a frenzied amount of alcohol and Ukrainian folk songs and dances.
After the failed reforms carried out at the request of the IMF, Goloborodko resigns, but puts forward his candidacy for the next presidential election of Ukraine. The second half of the season is entirely devoted to his attempts to win back the love of the people with the help of a spectacular election program and his friends, while the oligarchs are trying to beat him in the election race with their puppet Dmitry Surikov. Surikov freezes Yuriy Chuiko's accounts in order to lure him out of the shadows and give false testimony against Vasily on television. Surikov wins the election and imprisons Goloborodko.
===Servant of the People 3. Choice===
Mukhin, Oksana and other members of Goloborodko's team and his loyal friends have been on strike for months in front of the EU Council so that they would do at least something to free Vasily from illegal imprisonment. The leaders finally listen to friends when they provide them with a photo of Goloborodko with a nose injury (which was actually caused by Yuriy Chuiko, for the good purpose of keeping him in a safe medical ward for as long as possible), and the EU sends a check, which moves the situation off the ground. 
While Goloborodko is behind bars the government of Ukraine is replaced many times. EU leaders react to the chaos in Ukraine and help Chuiko to be released from custody by making him EU Representative for Ukraine. After recounting the votes from Surikov's election, Vasily Goloborodko becomes president again, and Yuriy becomes his curator. Finally reunited with his team, Vasily is bringing together Ukraine, after it was split into a huge number of subjects. 
==Powers & Abilities==
===Joking skills.===
 
Sergey Mukhin loves to joke and tell anecdotes, which Oksana almost always dislikes due to the frequent insulting and inappropriate nature of them. She also rarely understands them. However when Oksana tried to joke herself, Mukhin didn't understand it too. 
===Incredible resistance to alcohol.===
Being an avid drinker, Mukhin developed a strong immunity to the harmful effects of alcohol and a hangover. He also recovers very quickly after it and comes to his senses, which helped him successfully "detain" Otto Adelweinsteiner for several weeks.
==Weaknesses==
Mukhin is incredibly incompetent in a huge number of disciplines, starting from the rules of etiquette, ending with georgaphic literacy. Fortunately, Oksana often helps him out.
==Quotes==
==Trivia==
*Oksana claimed that Mukhin's great-grandfather was a great diplomat, and that Sergey clearly did not adopt this quality.
*Mukhin did not recognize Oksana and confused her with a handsome foreign ambassador when she first put on makeup.
==External Links==
*Sergey Mukhin on the Servant of the People Wiki.
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