“” “” “To me, Zhirinovsky looks like Putin’s tool.”
Well, he’s been allowed to run & hasn’t been arrested, so he’s either a tool or a joke to Putin.”” “”
He hasn’t been arrested because he abides the law.
Navalny got arrested because he intentionally doesn’t. His goal is to get arrested to cry abuse afterwards. He plays petty Mandela.
Zhirinovsky is actually an opposition although he is not pro-Western.
not according to Sobchak:
“Russian ultranationalist leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky is a former KGB officer and created his Liberal Democratic Party in 1990 at the urging of former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev, the mayor of St. Petersburg has said.
The St. Petersburg mayor said that the inception of Zhirinovsky's party was in March 1990 just after the old Congress of People's Deputies had abolished the monopoly of the Communist Party.
Gorbachev, as then head of the Soviet Communist Party, told a party Politburo meeting that “we must stay ahead of events by ourselves creating the first alternative party, but one that we can control,” according to Sobchak.
The KGB was told to choose the leader of the new party and “as always the KGB succeeded in its mission: it dug into its ‘active reserves’ and found a man with the rank of captain whose name has today become well known,” Sobchak said.
Several Russian papers and politicians have charged that the old Soviet security police was behind the creation of Zhirinovsky's party, but Zhirinovsky has consistently denied this.
(Note that this page is deleted from their website, but Internet never forgets)
The KGB official said to be responsible for the project was the infamous Filipp Bobkov, who is still alive today in his 80s, who was at one time head of the Fifth Directorate of the KGB, which was responsible for monitoring and trying to co-opt or get arrested the various Soviet dissidents.
@NorseViking: He hasn’t been arrested because he abides the law.
You mean likes this: http://www.rosbalt.ru/main/2014/04/18/1258904.html