Liberal Democratic Party of Russia
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The Liberal Democratic Party of Russia is a "leftist" Russian political party, that is nothing of the sort. In holds 56 of the 450 seats in the State Duma[1]
The party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky is infamous for his scandalous xenophobic, hooray-patriotic speeches. Once he made a video address to George W. Bush condemning the Iraq War with a lot of expletives and anti-American threats thrown in, while drunk (later he claimed it was forged). Those PR stunts would likely cause international disasters if anyone was capable of taking him seriously.
[edit] Positions
- Ultra-nationalist
- Annex Belarus
- Pro death penalty
- Protectionist
- Abolition of "non-traditional" or "fanatical" religious groups (Islamic Fundamentalists, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses)
- State control of all agriculture
- Anti-NATO, and anti-United States
[edit] External Links
- party manifesto circa 2007(English)
[edit] Footnotes
- ↑ This is the lower, popularly elected house of the Russian parliament