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Zhirinovsky's Israeli relatives included an uncle and cousin, meeting and befriending them for the first time only after discovering more about his family's story in Israel. Zhirinovsky's Israeli family did not know that he was a politician in Russia but responded warmly to his invitation to stay with him in Moscow. [citation needed]
Zhirinovsky advocated greatly expanding Russia's territory, including Alaska and Finland. [5] [54] [55] In the early 1990s, a frequent backdrop he used for speeches and press events was a map of Russia expanding east through Alaska and west through Finland. [17] Zhirinovsky had a penchant for geopolitical domination.
Zhirinovsky's campaign unofficially began shortly after the conclusion of the 1991 RSFSR presidential election.After retreating for several days to the town of Sofrino, Zhirinovsky made an announcement on June 20, 1991 that he would run in the election of the President of the Soviet Union, which was slated to be held in March 1995 (with some talk of potentially scheduling an early election for ...
Zhirinovsky is credited with having successfully identified the problems of ordinary Russians and offering simple remedies to solve them. For example, he has suggested that all leaders of organized crime should be shot and all Chechens deported from Russia. [2] Zhirinovsky also called for territorial expansion of Russia.
Electoral history of Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Member of the State Duma (1993–2022), Deputy Chairman of the State Duma (2000–2011) and Leader of Liberal Democratic Party (1991–2022). Liberal Democratic presidential candidate 1991 , 1996 , 2000 , 2008 , 2012 and 2018 .
Vladimir Zhirinovsky died on 6 April 2022. Since the founding of the party in 1989, its permanent leader was Vladimir Zhirinovsky. Zhirinovsky was the party's presidential candidate in almost all elections (except the 2004 election), and headed the party's list in all federal parliamentary elections, and also always headed the party's lists in all regional parliamentary elections.
In particular, Zhirinovsky criticized the Federal structure of Russia. In his opinion, Russia should be a unitary country that consists of 40 Governorates. [15] Zhirinovsky is a wrestler with foreign words in the Russian language, so he proposes to rename the office of President to the Supreme Ruler. [3]
Zhirinovsky campaigning. Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky is a veteran of Russian politics who has participated in five presidential elections in Russia (every election since 1996). Zhirinovsky's campaign slogan for 2012 was "Vote Zhirinovsky, or things will get worse". [11]