https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/hennadiey-kernes-obituary-covid?s=09
Known for his weightlifting and trash-talking, the gangster mayor was an intense and canny political survivor who had found himself starting out on the wrong side of two Ukrainian political revolutions, both of which he somehow managed to survive politically. A diminutive, physically brave wise-guy hoodlum, he enjoyed posting pictures of his jacked up pecs on Instagram (The New York Times referred to it as “eccentric,” which is an estimable accomplishment) and possessed a wondrously handsome schnoz straight out of a late 19th-century anti-Semitic newspaper caricature.
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