The stunning success of his Liberal Democratic Party of Russia in the December 1993 parliamentary elections lifted Vladimir Zhirinovsky to international fame. Yet his position going into this December’s elections is much weaker, and his party is virtually certain to lose seats in the State Dumaby LAURA BELIN AS IN 1993, THE NATIONALIST VLADIMIR Zhirinovsky has been a noisy and […]

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