Vladimir Zhirinovsky died. In fact, no. He is still alive but in serious condition. The dispute over the leader of the Russian Liberal Democratic Party (which, despite its name, is a rightwing party) is the latest clash between independent and state communications Russia. This morning the news had circulated in the Russian media and the first to break the news was Mash’s Telegram channel the news of his death, just after 10.45am, due to the covid, spent in a coma after 24 hours. But on Friday morning Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov He was quick to deny: “Somebody spread fake news today, that’s indecent,” he told reporters, according to Tass. “Thank God Vladimir Zhirinovsky is alive, he is still in serious condition but is being treated by doctors.”
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The Mystery of Zhirinovsky’s Death
Zhirinovsky75, a Duma veteran, founded and led the farright Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR) for the past three decades and supported Vladimir’s policies Putin. A speech he delivered in the Duma in December 2021 went viral last month for predicting the date and time of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with nearperfect accuracy. “It will take place at 4 a.m. on February 22,” Zhirinovsky said in a tirade against NATO. Just two days after the prediction, Putin had ordered troops to invade Ukraine in what the Kremlin continues to call a “special operation” rather than a “war.” News of the death and Mash is a channel known to have ties to Russian security services came quickly. So much so that Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin asked Senator Alexander Pronyushkin to resign after posting (and then canceling) a social message confirming Zhirinovsky’s death. The LDPR promised to “punish the liars who” buried Zhirinovsky by threatening legal action against all detractors.
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“At a time when the country is under stress, these Faje messages are genuine antistate provocations that cannot be swayed,” the party said. Russia’s Health Ministry has also tried to silence the rumours, saying Zhirinovsky is in “stable” condition and is being looked after by doctors. However, no visible evidence of the condition Zhirinovsky She was taken care of from her hospitalization on February 2nd.
Who is Zhirinovsky
Zhirinovsky is the leader of the Russian Liberal Democratic Party, a strongly antiWestern populist and nationalist movement. His “incendiary” verbal style has drawn enormous criticism from political opponents. He was also a member of duma President of the Republic of which he was VicePresident, Colonel in the Soviet Army and Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. In 2014, an episode that reached the West: During a press conference, he invited two men to rape one journalist of Russia Today, six months pregnant, guilty of posing a question about possible Russian retaliation against the Kyiv government in response to the ban on male Russian citizens entering Ukraine. The next day, after learning that the woman had been hospitalized because of the stress she had caused, in an interview with Rossiya 1, he apologized to her and offered to pay her medical bills.