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Just two weeks after his spectacular transformation from obscure buffoon to Russia's most notorious politician, Vladimir Zhirinovsky decided to take a little vacation. His idea of a good time: a riotous road trip through Central Europe, hobnobbing with a German right-wing firebrand, skiing in the company of an Austrian Waffen-SS veteran and, in virtually every place on his itinerary, behaving in ways that tend to get ordinary people thrown out of bars. But in Zhirinovsky's case, he was given the bum's rush from entire countries. Back in Russia at week's end, the nationalist demagogue...
...that Zhirinovsky may find it difficult to use other countries as soapboxes for airing his incendiary views, the most his trip seems to have provoked at home is a hilarious set of lampoons by Moscow's most popular comedian, Gennadi Khazanov, who draws great guffaws with his impersonations of "Vladimir Volfovich...
Russian ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky was given 24 hours to leave Bulgaria after he called for President Zhelyu Zhelev's resignation. Zhirinovsky, whose far-right Liberal Democratic Party was the top vote getter in Russian parliamentary elections last month, was also denied a visa by Germany...
Hail the Demagogue: The wisdom of Vladimir Zhirinovsky...
...VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY...