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Zhirinovsky and Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in 2000. Zhirinovsky ran in the 2000 presidential election. [18] His party's fortunes stabilized. In the 2003 election seeing an LDPR vote share of 11.7%, [31] [32] nearly double its 1999 vote share. Zhirinovsky in 2004 handing out money to random passers-by.
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 demonstrated a coziness between him and Putin, having become a favorite "opposition" candidate of Putin's administration. [4] He was seen as, arguably, the most pro-Putin opponent of Putin in the 2000 presidential election. [4] He had become a loyal ally of Putin in the Duma. [5] He avoided criticizing Putin. [4]
During the two years, Zhirinovsky's popularity waned and his party's support was halved in the 1995 elections (11.2%). The Communists emerged as the winners, with 22.3% of the vote. [51] In the presidential elections of 1996, the LDPR nominated Vladimir Zhirinovsky as a candidate. Zhirinovsky gained 5.7% of the votes in the first round.
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.
The late member of the Duma Vladimir Zhirinovsky was known for antisemitic speeches. [1] In 2001, 98 United States Senators penned a letter to President Putin, expressing concern about popular antisemitism, radical extremists (such as former Klansman and Grand Wizard David Duke) in the Russian Federation. [11]
The Vladimir Zhirinovsky 2008 presidential campaign was the election campaign of Liberal Democratic Party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky in the 2008 election. This was Zhirinovsky's fourth campaign for the Russian presidency, as he had previously run in the 1991 , 1996 , and 2000 elections.