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Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky was a Russian right-wing populist politician who served as the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) from its creation in 1992 until his death in 2022.
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politics · Russian politician (1946–2022) · politician · lawyer · military personnel · also Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky, Vladimir Volfovich Eidelstein, Vladimir Eidelstein, Zhirinovsky, Vladimir V. Zhirinovsky
Born 25 April 1946 · Died 6 April 2022 · Q200015
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2026· 5 entries
“when Russian soldiers can wash their boots in the warm waters of the Indian Ocean and switch to year-round summer uniforms”
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“Why should I reject Russian blood, Russian culture, Russian land, and fall in love with the Jewish people only because of that single drop of blood that my father left in my mother”
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“All my life I was looking for him. I believed that he was alive. I believed that someday he would find me... But there is a silver lining. I tried to imitate him... And I was able to achieve a certain position in life even without the support of my father.”
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“Journalists mocked me: for saying I was the son of a lawyer. And I am really the son of an agronomist.”
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2022· 1 entry
Died 2022-04-06.
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2021· 11 entries
Published video “ЛДПР говорит правду о власти”.
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Awarded Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 1st class (2021).
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Published video “Владимир Жириновский про ошибки Правительства, законы от оппозиции и разделение властей”.
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Published video “Как развивать IT в России”.
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Published video “Жириновский про стрельбу в Казани, минусы однопартийного режима и трагедии прошлого”.
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Published video “Отчет Правительства в Госдуме”.
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Published video “Юбилейное интервью Жириновского”.
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Published video “Как развивать российскую экономику”.
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Published video “Как Россия предотвратила Третью мировую войну”.
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Published video “ЦИК игнорирует вбросы бюллетеней”.
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Published video “В России нужно разрешить ношение оружия”.
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2018· 1 entry
Claimed: “"...in 1612 the word Ukraine was not heard anywhere.”” — rated Misleading by VOA.
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2016· 2 entries
Awarded Commendation of the Government of Russia (2016).
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Awarded Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class (2016).
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2015· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Alexander Nevsky (2015).
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2013· 2 entries
“chance to represent the French majority.”
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When asked about former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Zhirinovsky said, "Yulia Tymoshenko, I'm sorry, is a woman
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2012· 1 entry
Career landmark: Participated in The Freedom of Speech (ICTV) (tournament / event).
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2011· 5 entries
Awarded Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class (2011).
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Awarded Russian Federation Government Certificate of Honour (2011).
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Said that she could out do her father because "Instead of saying that Islam is terrorism, she simply insists that France is a secular nation that will not stand for hundreds of thousands of Muslims practicing their relig
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Career landmark: member of the State Duma (2011–2016).
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Career landmark: Participated in Poedinok (tournament / event).
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2009· 2 entries
“Everyone who sees the film will understand that Russians and Ukrainians are one people – and that the enemy is from the West”
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Zhirinovsky stated: "Everyone who sees the film will understand that Russians and Ukrainians are one people – and that the enemy is from the West"
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2008· 5 entries
Awarded Order of Honour (2008).
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Showed himself shooting a rifle at targets representing his political rivals
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“We should have taken the whole territory of Georgia under control,”
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Zhirinovsky argued in favour of Russian recognition of Abkhazian and South Ossetian independence
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During the resulting political row between the United Kingdom and Russia, he suggested dropping nuclear bombs over the Atlantic Ocean in an effort to flood Britain
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2006· 4 entries
Awarded Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class (2006).
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Zhirinovsky became persona non grata in Ukraine as well, following his statements regarding the January 2006 Russia–Ukraine gas dispute
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“Condoleezza Rice needs a company of soldiers [and] needs to be taken to barracks where she would be satisfied.”
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“Any traitor must be eliminated using any methods. If you have joined the special services to work, then you should work, but to betray, to run away abroad, to give up the secrets you learned while working – all of this looks bad.”
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2005· 5 entries
Career landmark: Representative of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (2005–2008).
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Kazakhstan declared Zhirinovsky persona non grata on the territory of his historical homeland, due to his controversial speech about the change of the Russia-Kazakhstan border, in which he questioned the Kazakhs' place i
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By the Independent Inquiry Committee into the Oil-for-Food Programme (Volcker Commission) and the U
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At one of the meetings of the State Duma of the fourth convocation, Zhirinovsky publicly expressed disagreement with the result of the parliamentary elections in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, where United Russia wo
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Zhirinovsky ignited a brawl in parliament by spitting at Rodina party legislator Andrei Saveliyev
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2004· 4 entries
Career landmark: Participated in Visiting Dmitry Gordon (tournament / event).
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Zhirinovsky spoke at the City Court of Saint Petersburg, in reference to the assassination of Galina Starovoytova
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Zhirinovsky worried that similar revolutions would occur in Abkhazia and South Ossetia
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Zhirinovsky declined to be nominated by LDPR, leaving that role to Oleg Malyshkin, who received 2% support from voters
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2003· 2 entries
Engaged in a fistfight following a television debate with Mikhail Delyagin
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Career landmark: member of the State Duma (2003–2007).
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2002· 1 entry
c-span: Vladimir Zhirinovsky
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2000· 2 entries
Awarded Honoured Jurist of the Russian Federation (2000).
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Career landmark: member of the State Duma (2000–2003).
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1999· 1 entry
At the start of the Second Chechen War, Zhirinovsky, an ardent supporter of the first war in Chechnya in the mid-1990s, advocated hitting some Chechen villages with tactical nuclear weapons
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1997· 1 entry
Won Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow" (1997).
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1996· 2 entries
Openly gay journalist Yaroslav Mogutin suggested it was "a foregone conclusion" that Zhirinovsky was gay, according to Russia's gay intelligentsia (university-educated people) in The Advocate
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Career landmark: Representative of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (1996–2004).
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1995· 2 entries
Career landmark: Participated in Odin na odin (tournament / event).
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Zhirinovsky threw a glass of orange juice at him on live television
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1994· 4 entries
Said: "It's all over for you once you're Americanized and Zionized", and threw stones and dirt at Jewish protesters
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Zhirinovsky was presented with a birth certificate indicating his original name as Eidelshtein; he claimed that the document was faked
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Career landmark: Special Guest of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (1994–1996).
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Zhirinovsky sued Finland Swedish politician Jutta Zilliacus and the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki for defamation because Zilliacus had used the word "galenpanna", or "madcap", to describe him
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1992· 1 entry
Zhirinovsky made contact with Jean-Marie Le Pen, the then-leader of France's Front National (FN)
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1991· 1 entry
During which time Zhirinovsky sent several armed volunteers from the "Falcons of Zhirinovsky" group to support the Iraqi president
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1990· 1 entry
And therefore the first officially sanctioned opposition party
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1989· 1 entry
Served as a director of Shalom, a Jewish cultural organization; unknown in Jewish circles before, he is thought to have been invited to join by the Anti-Zionist Committee of the Soviet Public, but subsequently forcefu
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1983· 1 entry
When he was run over by a bus near Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv
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1977· 1 entry
Studied at Lomonosov Moscow State University (1972–1977).
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1970· 1 entry
Studied at Institute of Oriental Languages (1964–1970).
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1967· 1 entry
Studied at university of Marxism-Leninism (1965–1967).
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1949· 1 entry
(together with his new wife Bella and his brother), where he worked as an agronomist in Tel Aviv
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1946· 1 entry
Born 1946-04-25.
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