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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 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 had acquired a broad reputation for corruption by 2000. [4] 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]
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.
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]
According to polls, between January and February 1996, Yeltsin averaged at 9.0%, versus 17.4% for Zyuganov, 10.6% for Yavlinsky, and 9.7% for Zhirinovsky. However, polls of youth conducted by the Russian Public Opinion Research Centre in April 1996 showed that if Russian youth were attracted to vote, around 70% would vote for Yeltsin.
Zhirinovsky alarmed many observers abroad with his neo-fascist and chauvinist declarations. Nevertheless, the referendum marked the end of the constitutional period defined by the constitution adopted by the Russian SFSR in 1978, which was amended many times while Russia was a part of Mikhail Gorbachev's Soviet Union. Although Russia would ...
Zhirinovsky was running for president for the sixth time. Previously he was a candidate in the elections of 1991 , 1996 , 2000 , 2008 and 2012 . His best result was in 2008 when he achieved 6,988,510 votes (9.5%), finishing third.