Talk:Vladimir Zhirinovsky

message: The phrases about washing in Indian Ocean and Russian mom. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.23.178.95 (talk) 18:52, 18 September 2004 (UTC)
replies: text:  Would have been a bilingual person because they tend to be more precise. The German language always makes that distinction. 2001:8003:A921:6300:875:B765:B04A:9296 (talk) 04:17, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I remember back in 1996-95 hearing about Zhirinovsky appearing on a talk show and telling the host that he ate a limb off his own misscarried daughter so as to make a point to his grieving wife. I have looked everywhere BUT HAVE NEVER been able to find this story. Is this just an urban legend? 69.248.43.27 02:41, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I had a quick look on the German language net where things are often easier to find because there is simply less mass. That distasteful incident has not at all been mentioned there and his 'admission' is not to be taken seriously. Russian humour can be very dark, so dark that Anglos do not get it. Zhirinovsky's irratic behaviour made me smile although it is totally without taste. We had a Ukrainian in our group who'd also go off the rails without rhyme or reason, not even connected to the moon cycle. I would also like to get something back like he'd want his wood mill. Our family's land in Berlin ended up with a French oil company, just because Helmut Kohl liked the French; and we did not get a cent. So I have something in common, and I know it's hard when abuse of power deprives you of your assets. Still - he should pull himself together, because his sense of humour is simply not understood. Thinking of Russia in the borders of 1917 is stupid. All these prickly, unwilling peoples dwelling on the fringes, Russia does not need them and talking about that is counterproductive. 2001:8003:A921:6300:875:B765:B04A:9296 (talk) 04:31, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Somebody Varify This?

message: I knew that since the guy is a nutjob the article might not be in so hot of a shape but I had no idea.  I gave it a shot.  --TJive 13:25, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Ick

message: Yes, it is well known that he is half-Jewish. But he neither indicated himself as Jew, nor was classified as a Jew by Soviet or Russian system, and of course his religion is not Judaism. Thus, I do not think the cat is warranted abakharev 23:58, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Self-identification is, in fact, critical for categories. See WP:BLP#Use_of_categories. And you're right, half the people on Wikipedia's Jew lists shouldn't be there. Jayjg (talk) 02:59, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Self-identification is critical for religion categories, yes. But the Jew categories are a special case, because "Jew" refers both to the Jewish ethnicity and to believers in Judaism. Thus, a person can be a Jew without being an adherent of Judaism, because while religion is a matter of choice, ethnicity is a permanent physical and genetic aspect of our being. Thus, Mr Zhirinovsky is ethnically (among other things) Jewish. Whether he wants to be or not. That's just how ethnicity works. — Red XIV (talk) 18:04, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

text: Would you also remove him from Kazakhstani people seen as he doesn't recognize Kazakhstan as a country and is a persona non grata there on the other hand? If you were born in Kazakhstan, you're Kazakhstani, if you were born to a Jewish father and non-Jewish mother, you're a half-Jew, like it or not. Personally, I don't understand the forced importance people tend to assign to these issues, but they do, and Wikipedia should reflect that. Maurog 12:50, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Category:Russian Jew

message: Does anybody remember his 1993 election video?  The video starts with a man and his wife sitting in bed, watching TV.  Zhirinovsky shows up on the screen dancing around with a few blondes, after which the husband starts making clumsy attempts at foreplay.  His wife slaps him away and says something to the effect of "No, I want a real man like Zhirinovsky!"  Any help on this would be much appreciated and I would be very appreciative if anyone had a link to it (if it's even online).  No, this isn't vandalism or some kind of joke:  Zhirinovsky is just that surreal.
http://tomsk.fm/watch/17153 - That's one of his old election videos, maybe the one you've mentioned (my browser cant play Flash)
http://tomsk.fm/watch/16572 - Zhirinovsky tells about some super secret weapon that can destroy continents
You can see the rest of them at http://tomsk.fm/tags/single/?find=жириновский - a whole lot of them on that site. It is true that many Russians consider him either a clown or a madman, but more probably he is indeed just a good actor used by Kremlin to compromise the right wing. As for his Jewish heritage, it's a well-known fact, but IIRC he never spoke of it in public. When asked who his parents were by nationality, he replied "My mother was Russian and my father was lawyer". 85.26.161.2 (talk) 16:44, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: 1993 election video

message: You are removing sourced information, and adding blantant falsehoods.  Thats not NPOVing, thats vandalism. Ostap 01:44, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I do not know how about v. word, but you are right - deletion of sourced and relevant information is bad. I added more sourced text and hope it will not be deleted like everything in article Russian presidential election, 2008.Biophys (talk) 01:51, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "NPOVing" 

message: Most of this article is the controversies section hence it is unbalanced. While I don't doubt that he is a colorful figure, we need to present a balanced view as this is a WP:BLP. Pocopocopocopoco (talk) 04:19, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Unbalanced is just another word for hilarious  99.236.221.124 (talk) 04:30, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

text: It is these controversies and his flamboyant speeches that bring him to public attention in both Russia and abroad. His role in Russian policy making has long been minimal. I don't really think that the article is unbalanced.--KoberTalk 04:28, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Please don't revert tags until we get more people discussing my concerns, that's very rude. I would politely request that you familiarise yourself with WP:BLP especially Wikipedia:BLP#Criticism_and_praise. Pocopocopocopoco (talk) 14:08, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You will have to provide more valid reasons for your tag abuse. You may feel sympathy towards the guy, but to most people in Russia as well as abroad he is just a clown. Please be more precise and suggest your vision of a balanced text instead of throwing tags around. --KoberTalk 14:20, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Drop the incivility, I have explained about that the articles controversies section takes up most of the article. Actually 75% of the article is the controversies section and this is unbalanced with respect to BLP. The practise with regard to BLPs is to avoid using section titles like "Controversies". As well as not making things one sided. Much of the stuff in the controversies section does not need to be there even if it has a third party source. For example your recent addition doesn't need to be there, its not big news and its not biographical. Pocopocopocopoco (talk) 14:35, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, now I see what is the source of your irritation. It was big news at that time and was reported by all mainstream media sources. So, it should stay there whether you like it or not. As I said before his escapades are the principal reason why he appears in the media reports. If you can recall more productive periods in his biography, please share your knowledge with us and, once sourced, your info will immediately find its room in the article. Agreed? --KoberTalk 14:51, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think Kober is right except one thing. This guy is not a clown. He is deadly serious, and he has a lot of followers. If only he was allowed to conduct open TV debates with Medvedev, he would beat Medvedev by huge margin in free elections.Biophys (talk) 16:00, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That’s really a pity. --KoberTalk 04:46, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Kober, that was just one example, there are others, quit taking this personally. Regardless of whether you think it was big news at the time, its not biographical. A biography of a living person in wikipedia is not a news aggregator of every outrageous thing the subject has said. Biophys, regardless of how you feel about the subject, a biography of living person is not the place to tell the world the WP:TRUTH. It should be written like a biography. Please see britanica's article on Zhirinivosky it's accurate and doesn't white wash the subject and yet it's done biographically. Pocopocopocopoco (talk) 21:28, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I don’t think this particular article aggregates news. The phrases cited just exemplify his political views and rhetoric. Let the reader read and understand their essence. Otherwise, we should have to reduce the entire section to a couple of brief statements describing him as anti-liberal, anti-Semite, anti-American, anti-Georgian, anti-Japanese, imperialist, militarist, etc. And then, of course, you are going to declare that, although you consider this guy to be colorful, the section is POV and attacks his personality.--KoberTalk 04:46, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

text: (reduced indent) Please refer to the following discussion at the BLP noticeboard and add your comment if you wish. Pocopocopocopoco (talk) 03:03, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Unbalanced

message: Zhirinovsky has been widely accused of anti-Semitism (he also suggested that Jews were often to blame for anti-SemitismIn Moscow, Zhirinovsky Is Remembered as Jewish Advocate, The New York Times, December 16, 1993 ) for statements in which he accused Jews of ruining Russia, sending Russian women to foreign countries as prostitutes, selling children and organs to the Western world, and provoking the Holocaust. He repeatedly denied his father's Jewishness until he published Ivan Close Your Soul in July 2001, describing how his father, Volf Isaakovich Eidelshtein, changed his surname from Eidelshtein to Zhirinovsky. He rhetorically asked, "Why should I reject Russian blood, Russian culture, Russian land, and fall in love with the Jewish people only because of that single drop of blood that my father left in my mother's body?"Zhirinovsky admits Jewish roots BBC News, 19 July, 2001 
Zhirinovsky is well known for his boasts pertaining to other countries, having expressed a desire to reunite countries of the ex-Soviet "near abroad" with Russia to within the Russia's borders of 1900 (including Finland and parts of Poland), and dreaming of a day "when Russian soldiers can wash their boots in the warm waters of the Indian Ocean"Ultra-right gains in poll The Age, December 9, 2003 after the Russia's conquest of Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey, and occupation of the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean.Zhirinovsky is Russia's big bad wolf - success of Vladimir Wolfovich Zhirinovsky in recent Russian elections - Column Zhirinovsky has advocated forcibly retaking Alaska from the United States (which would then become "a great place to put the Ukrainians"), dumping nuclear waste in Germany, and using nuclear weapons and/or naval blockade-imposed starvation against Japan.Vladimir Zhirinovsky Information Technology Services at SUNY Brockport In July 2007, in response to questions about Russian troops carrying out extensive war games which reportedly included rehearsals of a Baltic invasion, Zhirinovsky, who encourages separatism within the Russian minority in the Baltic states,Nuclear Threats and Busty Ladies in the Race for Second-Place in Russia Der Spiegel,  February 28, 2008 endorsed the forcible re-occupation of these countries.Russia threatens Baltic missile build-up The Baltic Times, Jul 05, 2007 Among his early threats, Zhirinovsky claimed Russia possesses "Elipton," a weapon of mass destruction suposedly more powerful than nuclear weapons.
Russia’s southern neighbor Georgia has been another frequent target of Zhirinovsky’s rhetoric. He has described Georgians as “an incapable nation” which likes “to eat, drink and play football” and “then can complain, cry and call to Moscow and Washington, receive some gifts and continue enjoying themselves.”[ http://english.pravda.ru/world/ussr/5516-0/ Vladimir Zhirinovsky: Georgia brings trouble to Russia.] Pravda.ru. May 10, 2004. He has been critical of Georgia’s pro-Western line, arguing that “the closer Georgia comes to NATO membership, the faster Abkhazia becomes a part of Russia,”Teresa Whitfield (2007), Friends Indeed?: The United Nations, Groups of Friends, and the Resolution of Conflict, p. 155. US Institute of Peace Press, . referring to Georgia’s breakaway republic of which Zhirinovsky is an energetic supporter. In a high-profile incident in August 2004, he departed on a campaign to promote a tourist season in Abkhazia, accompanied by dozens of his party activists and Russian journalists aboard a cruise ship. It was intercepted by a Georgian coast guard vessel which eventually let the ship arrive at the Abkhazia coast.Inal Khashig (August 19 2004), Abkhazia Revels in Nationalist’s Visit. Institute for War and Peace Reporting Caucasus Reporting Service No. 247. 
Zhirinovsky hailed what he described as "the democratic process" in Iraq under Saddam Hussein, whom he supported strongly. The friendship dated at least until the first Gulf War in 1991, during which time Zhirinovsky sent several armed volunteers from the "Falcons of Zhirinovsky" group to support the Iraqi president. Allegations have dogged Zhirinovsky closely since the fall of Baghdad that he personally profited from illicit oil sales as part of the Oil-for Food scandal, a charge investigated in 2005 by the Independent Inquiry Committee into the Oil-for-Food Programme (Volcker Commission) and the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI).  Zhirinovsky is also close to the Serbian ultra-nationalist leader and war crimes suspect Vojislav Šešelj. He reportedly even praised Adolf Hitler's ideology of Nazism, befriended Edwin Neuwirth (an Austrian industialist and a "proud" Waffen-SS veteran who has denied that the Nazis used gas chambers to kill Jews during World War II), and the German press denounced him as "Russia's Hitler".Hello, I Must Be Going Time Magazine, Jan. 10, 1994Nuclear Threats and Busty Ladies in the Race for Second-Place in Russia Der Spiegel,  February 28, 2008 He also declared Bulgaria should annex the Republic of Macedonia, and said Romania is an artificial state supposedly created by Italian Gypsies who seized territory from Russia, Bulgaria and Hungary.
He has expressed admiration for the 1996 United States presidential election contender Pat Buchanan, and referred positively to a comment in which Buchanan labeled the United States Congress "Israeli-occupied territory". Zhirinovsky said that both countries were "under occupation" and that "to survive, we could set aside places on US and Russian territories to deport this small but troublesome tribe." Buchanan strongly rejected Zhirinovsky's endorsement, eliciting a harsh response by Zhirinovsky: "You soiled your pants as soon as you got my congratulations. Who are you afraid of? Zionists?"Russia's Zhirinovsky now blasts Buchanan as 'crap' Jewish News Weekly, March 1, 1996 Previously, during the 1992 visit to the United States, Zhirinovsky called on television "for the preservation of the white race" and warned that the white Americans were in danger of turning "their country" over to black and Hispanic people.The World; Here Comes the Clown. No Joke. The New York Times, November 6, 1994 
In 1999, at the start of the Second Chechen War, Zhirinovsky, the ardent supporter of the first war in Chechnya in the mid-1990s, advocated hitting some Chechen villages with tactical nuclear weapons.Russian Parliamentary Election 1999 RFE/RL, 17 December 1999 In 2006, in answer to the Ramzan Kadyrov's support for polygamy in Chechnya, he said it should be applied across Russia.Polygamy proposal for Chechen men BBC News, 13 January 2006 To eradicate bird flu, Zhirinovsky suggested arming all of Russia's population and ordering the troops to shoot down the migrant birds returning to Russia from wintering.Action for protection of birds from Zhirinovsky to be held in Moscow He has also threatened to remove restrictions on arms sales to Iran and proposed to sell the disputed Kurile Islands to Japan for $50,000,000,000.Zhirinovsky: Russia's political eccentric BBC News, March 10, 2000 In 2008, he was shown shooting rifle at the targets representing his political rivals. Besides expressing his hatred for the Turks and the Caucasians, he also called for the deportation of all Japanese and Chinese from Russia.The Beast Reawakens By Martin A. Lee 
In 2005, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan declared Zhirinovsky persona non grata on the territory of his historical homeland, due to the politician's controversial speech about the change of the Russia-Kazakhstan border, in which he questioned the Kazakh people's place in history. Zhirinovsky maintains his view, claiming that his position is backed by a number of academic works on history and geography. Жириновскому запретили приезжать на историческую родину from Lenta.ru As of 2006, Zhirinovsky was persona non grata also in Ukraine following his statements regarding the January 2006 Russia-Ukraine gas dispute (this was revoked in 2007). In reaction to Condoleezza Rice's criticism of Russian foreign policy during the dispute, Zhirinovsky stated that "Condoleezza Rice needs a company of soldiers [and] needs to be taken to barracks where she would be satisfied."Condoleezza Rice's anti-Russian stance based on sexual problems Pravda, 11.01.2006 In the past, Zhirinovsky has been expelled from Bulgaria for insulting its president. He was also barred from entry to Germany.
On the November 2006 death by poisoning of Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko, Zhirinovsky said: "Any traitor must be eliminated using any methods. If you have joined the special services to work, then you should work, but to betray, to run away abroad, to give up the secrets you learned while working - all of this looks bad."Former KGB Agent Dies Associated Press, 24 November 2006Dead ex-spy claimed Russian agent monitored him CTV, Nov. 25 2006 Sergei Abeltsev, Zhirinovsky's former bodyguard and State Duma member from the LDPR, added: "The deserved punishment reached the traitor. I am sure his terrible death will be a warning to all the traitors that in Russia the treason is not to be forgiven. I would recommend to citizen Berezovsky to avoid any food at the commemoration for his crime accomplice Litvinenko."  In the 2007 election, political patronage from Zhirinovsky enabled Litvinenko murder suspect Andrei Lugovoi to win election to the Russian parliament and thus the formal parliamentary immunity.Interview with Lugovoi BBC Hard Talk, 19 February 2008 During the resulting political row between the United Kingdom and Russia, Zhirinovsky accused Great Britain ("the most barbaric country on the planet", he said) of, among other things, fomenting the World War I, the October Revolution, World War II, and the collapse of the Soviet Union,Zhirinovsky Engages in Street Theater, The St. Petersburg Times, January 25, 2008 and suggested dropping nuclear bombs over the Atlantic Ocean in an effort to flood Britain.
Zhirinovsky also has a history of igniting personal violence in political contexts. In his notorious debate with Boris Nemtsov in 1995 a "juice fight" broke out. Жириновский снова брызнул соком from Vesti.ru In 2003, Zhirinovsky engaged in a fistfight after a television debate with Mikhail Delyagin.Zhirinovsky Gets Into Fistfight After Televised Election Debate The Moscow Times, November 24, 2003 (mirrored by yabloko.ru) In 2005, Zhirinovsky ignited a brawl in the parliament by spitting at a Rodina party legislator, Andrei Saveliyev.Flamboyant Russian lawmaker in parliament chamber brawl News from Russia
While some observers were inclined to consider such controversies  as stark efforts to drum up nationalist support and should not be viewed as anything more serious than electoral fodder meant for domestic consumption, there was great consternation at the fact that in February 1996, months before a presidential election, Zhirinovsky placed second in opinion polls, behind Communist Gennady Zyuganov and ahead of Boris Yeltsin. In the end, however, Zhirinovsky placed fifth with a 5.7% share in the first round of voting. Since then, the party's fortunes have somewhat stabilized, with the 2003 election seeing a LDPR vote share of 11.7%, while the effect of Zhirinovsky's personality only increased his irrelevancy in successive presidential elections. (In 2004, Zhirinovsky declined to even be nominated by the party, leaving that role to Oleg Malyshkin, who received a nearly negligible portion of the vote.) While some commentators call Zhirinovsky a fascist (or a neo-fascist),Zhirinovsky's A-Z. (Russian parliamentary elections favored Vladimir Zhirinovsky's fascist Liberal Democratic Party) The Economist, December, 1993The New Russia of Vladimir Zhirinovsky: Fascist Tendencies in the Liberal-Democratic Party of Russia NATOAbroad at Home; When You Appease Fascism The New York Times, December 17, 1993 some others dismiss him as a mere "clown" and the Kremlin's willing political tool to neutralize the right-wing voter potential - and, for a time being, also a radical "bogeyman" for the West.
All of this cited information was just removed from the article, because of the section title "controversy".  It needs to be readded in the correct sections. Ostap 03:13, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Controversies

message: Should we label Zhirinovsky as a self hating jew? 76.174.204.203 (talk) 22:31, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I dont think he hates Jews at all. For example: Zirinovsky said that attack on a synagogue in Moscow is blasphemic and parliament should discuss this event. He also called the executive branch to strictly react on any facts of anti-semitism and xenophobia. He also and accused CPRF and Rodina parties in that their patriotic propaganda pushes youth into extremist activity.--Dojarca (talk) 19:27, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

text: He is a person who made a lot of eccentric speeches and that is kind of eccentricity that is not easily translated just with a russian-english dictionary. But Zhirinovsky is definitely not a nationalist or antisemitic. That is even ridiculous to read a thing like that. --eugrus (talk) 21:49, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Self-Hating Jew 

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message: I think at this point I am removing the tag. Nothing has changed with the guy in the last 5 years. All the criticisms and quotes are sourced. No one has found a more pro-Zhirinovsky reputable source. He happens to be an antisemitic, anti-Asian, anti-Arab, bigot. And that POV seems to be as neutral as it can get.96.238.211.171 (talk) 05:19, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV Tag 

message: So this chap is a fellow traveller and the LDPR a bloc party?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.104.76.211 (talk) 07:37, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  "...servant of Kremlin policy" 

message: I noticed Zhirinovsky completed a doctorate, does this warrant it's use as a title.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anticitizen 98 (talk • contribs) 14:02, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doctorate 

message: Can anyone confirm date of death? Samogitia (talk) 15:57, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: He's not dead. Mellk (talk) 01:52, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of death 

message: Undo all edits done in the past 20 minutes. It's been confirmed by the Russian Ministry of Health that Zhiriniovsky is alive, though in critical condition. 
Source: https://tass.ru/politika/14182355 Dani the protector (talk) 09:19, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done for now: Procedural decline, request was withdrawn: This request would need reliable sources in order to be accepted Victor Schmidt (talk) 10:23, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 25 March 2022 

message: Please update, as he's now died.  Article is protected, but it needs to be switched to past tense, etc.    — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:CA:874F:BBC1:31B4:28CB:DF53:CC27 (talk) 10:38, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update... 

message: Plase change "Mordovia" to "Moldovia" 212.27.194.162 (talk) 12:30, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: Mordovia is not Moldova. 💜  melecie  talk - 13:37, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 6 April 2022 

message: Announced 6 April, but doesn't mean 6 April. Been reported in March he died, maybe he did die then? Solipsism 101 (talk) 13:46, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: @Solipsism 101 you are right. Renat 16:12, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

text: TASS reports date of death as today. Mellk (talk) 18:10, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The Guardian gives the DOD as 6 April. Added it to the lead. Solipsism 101 (talk) 19:28, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: That would be a good enough source to use. Thanks. Mellk (talk) 19:35, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of death? 

message: Vladimir Zhirinovsky, we are told before we even get to his picture, is "described as a clown." I have heard Volodymyr Zelenskyy described as a clown. I've seen it written in print. Why are we not informed as quickly about this same fact on his page? There's no way this discrepancy should be allowed to stand while both articles are locked to "prevent vandalism." Looks like we're effectively preserving a slanderous double standard! 37.201.225.26 (talk) 16:02, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Tovarishch major, what has Zelensky to do here? Birdofpreyru (talk) 16:43, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

text: He is often described as a kind of jester, but it should be clarified, not simply a link to clown. Mellk (talk) 18:07, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Described as a clown" right at the top? Come on! 

message: The Controversies paragraph starts with Zhirinovsky also has... It might be more logical to remove the word "also". 2A02:1810:B414:7900:7CC4:B163:8CA7:82A9 (talk) 16:55, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems this was taken care of at some point. –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 17:10, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 6 April 2022 (2) 

message: I think some of the statements under "other controversies", which were some views he gave and rhetoric, should be moved to the appropriate "views" section. Or the controversy it caused should be explained, if it applies. Mellk (talk) 19:33, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Other controversies" 

message: According to the article
Other people have confirmed Zhirinovsky was gay, but closeted.gordonua
At this point do we have enough evidence to place him in any categories like gay Russian politicians or something? Biography of living persons no longer applies MaitreyaVaruna (talk) 02:15, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The source states that this is according to Ilya Ponomarev. Sure there were such rumours around but RS confirming it is needed to be cited. Mellk (talk) 11:08, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

text: WP:BLPCAT should be taken to still apply. The subject has only been dead for a few days, not even the 6 months minimum suggested by WP:BDP. Nil Einne (talk) 04:58, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gay but closeted 

message: The examples of his political views seem to be about foreign relations of Russia or Russian military abroad.
Has he expressed views about Russian internal affairs?
What did he think of Putin or other Russian politicians?
What was his vote about, say, Russian budgets?
--Error (talk) 12:12, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: He suggested to transform Russia into monarchy, rename Putin's position into Zsar or Imperor or Russia, and disband all political parties in the country, among other absurd things he proposed. It was for good reasons many Russians and journalists for ages called him a clown :D Birdofpreyru (talk) 13:23, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Local views 

message: In personal life section on the image caption change "Pphoto" to photo (copyedit) 24.44.73.34 (talk) 19:51, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: . Thanks. Mellk (talk) 19:57, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
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