Vladimir Zhirinovsky

Vladimir Zhirinovsky Wolfowitsch (Russian: Владимир Вольфович Жириновский, scientific transliteration Vladimir Vol'fovič Žirinovskij; born April 25, 1946 in Alma- Ata, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, as Vladimir Wolfowitsch Eidelstein ) is a Russian politician and lawyer. Zhirinovsky is the founder and leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia ( LDPR ), an infra in the Russian extreme right nationalist party. His policy is extremely populist. Due to its provocative stance and its sensational sayings he enjoys small but constant popularity.

Life

Vladimir Zhirinovsky was born in Alma- Ata, moved to Moscow in 1964 and changed there the worn until then family name of his father, the Polish Jews Wolf Eidelstein ( Эйдельштейн ). From 1964 to 1970 he studied at the Moscow State University Turkish Studies ( therefore he is fluent in Turkish), at the same time he also studied 1965-1967 International Relations at the University of Marxism- Leninism. From 1972 to 1977 he finally completed a correspondence course for law and later worked as a lawyer.

Political career

In 1990, Zhirinovsky, the LDPR (then LDPSU ), which he described as the first opposition party in Russia. In 1991, Zhirinovsky part in the presidential elections of the RSFSR, reaching almost eight percent of the votes cast. Since his party was ever elected to the Russian parliament. After the elections of December 7, 2003 Zhirinovsky was elected deputy chairman of the Duma.

Among other things, Zhirinovsky calls for the restoration of the old Russian Empire borders of 1917 with Finland, Congress Poland, Belarus and eastern Ukraine, which is considered the cradle of the Russian nation as the heartland of Kievan Rus and several sacred and national sites has and he therefore as old russian country is considered.

In December 1993, Zhirinovsky presented the German -Polish border demarcation in question to the Federal Republic on the possible sale of the territory to Kaliningrad to negotiate ( the northern part of the former German East Prussia, including Königsberg ) in Germany.

Several times Zhirinovsky was abusive and violent towards political opponents. So he instigated in 2003, during the election campaign for the general election, a mass brawl in a television broadcast only. In February 2008, he also attacked a critic during a talk show and pushed him in front of cameras.

Language and ideology Zhirinovsky are marked despite his own Jewish origins of a populist anti-Semitism and demagogic theories - he also denies the existence of Osama bin Laden and Al- Qaeda, claiming that the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 by the U.S. government, perhaps had been using the Mossad staged. He also claims that the U.S. Congress is an occupied territory by the Israelis. Also notable was his proposal to ignite in the Atlantic Russian nuclear bombs, to flood Great Britain.

Given in 2010, developing plans of the Russian government to seek a strategic partnership with NATO, Zhirinovsky declared his rejection of joining NATO and Russia called for " the creation of a new security architecture [ ... ] that the only taking into account the opinion of can be created Russian Federation " one.

On 15 May 2013, the Parliament of Kyrgyzstan Zhirinovsky declared persona non grata. Zhirinovsky had previously suggested that Kyrgyzstan would be selling the Issyk Kul lake in Russia. In return, Russia Kyrgyzstan to cancel the debt in the amount of 500 million U.S. dollars.

Personal

The religious affiliation of Zhirinovsky is unclear. He even makes its omission. When he was still living in Alma- Ata, he attended a Baptist prayer house together with his grandmother. In a television report from the year 2010, however, was to see how Zhirinovsky proposes an Orthodox sign of the cross.

Zhirinovsky has been married since the 1970s with Galina Alexandrovna Lebedeva, which is a professional biologist. There are rumors that Zhirinovsky in 2012 has divorced because he has their income does not exceed specified in the compulsory declaration for Duma deputy from his wife.

His marriage to Galina Alexandrovna 's son Igor Vladimirovich Lebedev emerged, which is Duma deputy since 1999, and like his father, the LDPR faction belongs.

Zhirinovsky speaks his native language, English, French, Turkish and German.

Trivia

• In Penza ice cream is produced, the " Zhirinovsky in chocolate " is.