Russian Politician Tells Aides to Violent Rape Journalist

[okaawhatever]

A far-right Russian politician is facing legal problems after ordering two of his aides to ‘violently rape’ a pregnant Russia Today journalist in front of other reporters at a press conference.

Vladimir Zhironovsky, of the pro-Kremlin Liberal Democratic Party, launched into an animated tirade against RT journalist Stella Dubovitskaya, – who is six months pregnant – after she asked him an innocuous questions about possible sanctions against the pro-Western government of Ukraine, according to the Daily Mail.

Responding to her question, Zhironovsky grabbed two of his male aides, telling them, “When I say, you run to her and violently rape her” before shoving them in her direction and shouting: “Go and kiss her. Grab her.”

Male and female journalists in attendance were shocked at the outburst with one male journalist asking, “She is pregnant, why are you attacking her?”

Yulia Chuchalova of news agency Interfax spoke up in defense of Dubovitskaya, telling the politician, “This is derogatory, humiliating – what are you doing here?”

Zhirinovsky shouted back, “What are you doing intervening here, you lesbian? Get out of here.”

Continued at Link: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/20/russian-politician-orders-aides-to-violently-rape-pregnant-journalist-at-press-conference/
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What started the incident?
The journalist asked Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the deputy speaker of the Russian Duma (lower house), about recent Ukrainian moves to crack down on Russian men entering the country. Bizarrely and incomprehsibly, Zhirinovsky blamed the Ukraine unrest on "uterine frenzy,"

Zhirinovsky] Don’t you think! You all are blood thirsty! They will make a film about you, the Furies of Maidan. You’re diseased with uterine frenzy, all of you. Women of Maidan, if it was not for your uterine frenzy there would have been no Maidan. Look at this fool Irina Farion. She is spewing hatred toward Russians. Do you think she hates the Russians? She adores them! Uterine frenzy, no lover, no husband, she has nothing. An animal sits between her legs, and through her tongue, she with her foolish tongue, the firestorm breaks skyward. Like yours. Which sanctions? Need to be friendlier, with tenderness. Where are your… where are your idiots, call them here. You too, come here! I will say, and you run and start raping the woman hard. Christ is risen! Indeed he has risen! Go kiss her! Kiss her, hug her, kiss her, grab her! And the second one! Kiss her harder, Take the second one, kiss her! And you go and kiss! Christ is risen!

Link for full translation:

http://geopoli.info/?p=305

Note: This guy is leader of the opposition party. They are to the right of Putin. This is what Putin has to deal with? Lord, I almost feel sorry for the guy. His opposition leader makes our opposition leader look like a reasonable, intelligent liberal.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

1. He's described as "pro-Kremlin" - are you sure "opposition" is accurate? N.T.

[okaawhatever]

6. I read that elsewhere. I read several stories. I went to wiki to confirm and this is what they say:

According to Reuters, "Although nominally part of the Russian opposition, he is widely seen as a servant of Kremlin policy, used to float radical opinions to test public reaction."

What I read was that he was the leader of the opposition party. The opposition could be things like wanting to go back to Communism, not necessarily anti-Kremlin or anti-Putin.

[Cha]

2. K

[Behind the Aegis]

3. He seems to be insane.

It was actually the media controversy that caused an avalanche of criticism of the bill from Vladimir Zhirinovsky. "Under the guise of propaganda of homosexuality, there is rabid propaganda of homosexuality going on. This weirdo in St. Petersburg started it, an for six months the media were saying - "he says," "he demands." "Finally, the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly passed the law. Afterwards, they passed it in some other regions, and now they want to pass in in Moscow. Then there was a brawl near the State Duma on Wednesday (supporters and opponents of the bill fought; the clashes reoccurred on Friday. - ed.)," said the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party during the morning session of the State Duma.
From Pravda of all places!

Flamboyant politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky gave a lesson to Moscow teens Wednesday on how to lead a proper sexual life, warning them against homosexuality and urging them to have children in the future.

Speaking before children aged 13 and 14 in a classroom of School No. 914 in western Moscow, Zhirinovsky told them that sex was a "natural desire" that they "should not be ashamed of."

He warned them that suppressing the sex instinct can lead to sexual perversions, including homosexuality, and to mental diseases.

The Moscow Times is none too fond of him either.

Zhirinovsky Blames Jews for WWII

MOSCOW — In his most direct anti-Semitic statements yet, Russian ultranationalist Vladimir V. Zhirinovsky on Wednesday blamed Jews for starting World War II and provoking the Holocaust.

"The essence of the conflict around the Jewish people is that when their number grows too much in some country, war breaks out there," said Zhirinovsky, who leads the third-largest faction in the Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament.

"That happened in Germany . . . where there were too many Jews," he declared to reporters.

It was not clear why Zhirinovsky called the news conference, which he turned into a monologue about his vision of the history of the Jews and their role in contemporary life.

His only explanation was that "many Jews were born in April."

(Ooops...turns out he has Jewish roots! Zhirinovsky admits Jewish roots despite being "a notorious anti-Semite".)

[LisaL]

5. From googling him, he is known for his outrageous remarks.

He wanted a letter removed from Russian alphabet.
"Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the ultranationalist Russian politician known for outrageous remarks on everything from migrant laborers to terrorism, has now targeted a letter in the Russian alphabet."
http://www.rferl.org/content/zhironovsky-russian-banning-letter/25294499.html

[LisaL]

4. Well apparently so called "liberal democratic party" in Russia is a far-right party.

It's neither liberal nor democratic.

[Bosonic]

7. Want a Good Look at Putin’s Pervy Propaganda? See ‘The Furies of Maidan’

Want a Good Look at Putin’s Pervy Propaganda? See ‘The Furies of Maidan’

A Russian MP’s wild rant at a pregnant reporter was inspired by an ‘investigative report’ that blames Ukraine’s revolution on sexually frustrated women and claims, ‘They like it hard.’ Even amid the increasing surreality of Vladimir Putin’s Russia, ultranationalist MP Vladimir Zhirinovsky’s tirade against a pregnant reporter who asked a question about Ukraine stood out.

Besides telling the woman she shouldn’t work while pregnant, instructing a male aide to rape her, and shouting, “Damned lesbian!” at another female reporter who tried to rebuke him, Zhirinovsky lashed out at the women of Ukraine’s pro-independence Maidan movement, assailing them as sex-starved harpies. “There’s going to be a film about you, The Furies of Maidan,” he railed, apparently taking the female journalists for Maidan sympathizers. “You’ve all got uterine frenzy, the women of Maidan,” he ranted. “If it weren’t for this uterine frenzy, there wouldn’t be any Maidan.”

Zhirinovsky, who has apologized for his outburst at last week’s press conference and faces likely censure by the Duma, Russia’s parliament, is known for his outrageous antics. But it turns out The Furies of Maidan is not a figment of his imagination. It is a real “investigative report” that aired last Saturday on NTV, one of Russia’s major television networks. Subtitled “Sex, Psychosis, and Politics,” the 30-minute feature makes exactly the same point as Zhirinovsky’s rant: that the displaced energy of sexually frustrated or pathological women was a driving force behind Ukraine’s Euromaidan revolution. In the dramatic words of the 45-second promo: “They like it hard. They are turned on by danger. And woe to anyone who fails to appreciate them.”

While the report could be mistaken for a clever if over-the-top parody clip, it is not. A wild mélange of paranoia, smear, sleaze, misogyny, and homophobia that makes Rush Limbaugh look politically correct, The Furies of Maidan offers a disturbing glimpse into the state of Russia’s government-run mainstream media—and into the toxic sludge of propaganda it regularly dumps on a largely uncritical public.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/25/want-a-good-look-at-putin-s-pervy-propaganda-see-the-furies-of-maidan.html

[Lizzie Poppet]

8. "Uterine Frenzy" sounds like a band that would share a bill with Pussy Riot.

And surely it needn't be said that this guy sounds like a complete idiot.

[pampango]

9. His anti-women rhetoric goes way back.

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."

In 2013, when asked about former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, said, "Yulia Tymoshenko, I'm sorry, is a woman. I don't like them, as it's easier to persuade a woman. [...] Women are more compliant, and it's dangerous."

In February 2010 Zhirinovsky claimed that Eastern Ukraine would become part of Russia “in five years" claiming that "the population is largely Russian” and called President-elect of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych “basically Russian” (Yanukovych's father was an ethnic Polish-Belarusian, and his mother Russian)

Zhirinovsky has expressed admiration for the 1996 United States presidential election contender Pat Buchanan, referring positively to a comment in which Buchanan labeled the United States Congress "Israeli-occupied territory" and said that both countries were "under occupation" and that "to survive, we could set aside places on U.S. and Russian territories to deport this small but troublesome tribe."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Zhirinovsky

Looks like he might be right about his 2010 prediction about eastern Ukraine becoming part of Russia within 5 years.

Overall, his statements are the epitome of the far-right.

[okaawhatever]

10. No kidding with his Ukraine comments. Too bad he's such a vile nutjob that what he says is largely

disregarded. No surprise that he and Pat Buchanan share common intellectual ground.

[Glassunion]

11. Hmm...

Old and busted: Reefer Madness
New hotness: Uterine Frenzy
Can't wait for: Mammary Mania

[951-Riverside]

12. He better watch himself

I have a feeling that going after an RT reporter is a big no no in Russia. Especially within the Kremlin.