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The leader of the LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky died
The politician and leader of the LDPR party Vladimir Zhirinovsky died. This was announced by the State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin.
In early February, the 75-year-old politician was hospitalized with coronavirus infection and serious lung lesions. A source of Kommersant, close to the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, said that the politician hid the disease for two weeks.
As the first to report the death of Zhirinovsky on the afternoon of March 25, the Russian State Agency of RIA Novosti reported with reference to the member of the Federation Council Alexander Pronyushkin about death in Moscow Vladimir Zhirinovsky. Previously, the same information was transmitted by the Mash tabloid without indicating the source. The State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin denied this information, saying that the politician is alive, although he was in a hospital in serious condition. He recommended that the mandate be abandoned Senator Pronyushkin, who is in the LDPR. He deleted a message about the death of a politician from social networks. The LDPR party said that the Prosecutor General’s Office and the courts of complaints about the media who reported the death- Vladimir Zhirinovsky was born on April 25, 1946 in Alma-Ata. In May 1988, he took part in the work of the Constituent Congress of the Democratic Union, which was headed by dissident Valery Novodvorskaya, but soon left the party.
- In 1989, Zhirinovsky, together with Vladimir Bogachev, founded the liberal-democratic party of the Soviet Union (LDPSS), it was officially registered in April 1991. In June of the same year, Zhirinovsky ran for the presidency of the RSFSR, where he took third place.
- In 1993, he elected a deputy to the State Duma of the first convocation - his party, renamed the LDPR, gained more votes - about 23 percent. Then Zhirinovsky several times successfully re -elected into the lower house of the federal parliament. At the time of death, he was the current deputy of the State Duma.
- Since 1991, Zhirinovsky participated six times in the elections of the President of Russia (Oleg Malyshkin ran for the LDPR only in 2004). The best result was shown in the 2008 elections - third place and 9.35 percent of the vote.
- Zhirinovsky was among those who supported the GKChP, the dispersal of the Supreme Council of Russia, the annexation of Crimea . The politician was known for his eccentric behavior and radical public statements.