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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sunday: "No changes of Poland's border will be made," he said on a visit to the first congress of a small Polish right-wing group. BORING ZHIRINOVSKY, a Polish newspaper headlined its story: "Vladimir Volfovich did not violate borders yesterday, he drank within limits, loved Poles and went to bed after the banquet." Tuesday: Presented Richard Nixon with a copy of his autobiography, The Last March South, inscribed, "Don't support the losers in the last elections -- there's no future in it." A copy for President Clinton contained this message: "I don't want to be misunderstood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Vladimir Zhirinovsky Beat | 3/28/1994 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hello, I Must Be Going | 1/10/1994 | See Source »

...this last remark that has reportedly provoked speculation in Moscow that despite a longstanding marriage, Zhirinovsky may be a homosexual. Recently, however, his staff has labored to discredit the slander by passing out photos depicting Vladimir Volfovich wolfishly admiring the ample decolletage of a female dinner companion who does not appear to be his wife. Beneath the photo, a caption reads: "They say Zhirinovsky is indifferent to women. Is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Farce to Be Reckoned With | 12/27/1993 | See Source »

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