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Monday, April 25, 2011

VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY TURNS SIXTY-FIVE TODAY

VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY 
b. April 25, 1946 


LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY LEADER 
VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY 

at the moment after his December 1993 triumph 
still in the Duma on his sixty-fifth birthday 
-- indeed, vice speaker -- 
(though no longer a member of the 
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe) 

"Boris Yeltsin had been the leader who 'gives us hope'; now in late 1993, in the winter of the Russians' discontent, it was Vladimir Zhirinovsky who, it seemed, inspired hope among the dispossessed and the disadvantaged, but tumult and despair among the political class.   ... 

"The long-feared specter of 'Weimar Russia' appeared suddenly to have the possibility of real content – or rather, a face and form, and frizzy, short-cropped hair.

from RUSSIA REDUX, Chapter 11 


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