Russian politician denounces Apple’s U2 album gift as ‘gay propaganda’

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9. The guy is from the fascist, LPDR party of Vlad Zhirinovsky so being a homophobe is standard fare.

...the party's main policy stands as nationalism and a focus in law and order.

The Liberal Democratic Party of Russia aims for "a revival of Russia as a great power." It has opposed both communism and the "wild" capitalism that resulted from Russia's reforms. It favours a mixed economy with private ownership but with a strong management role reserved for the state. In foreign policy, the party places a strong emphasis on "civilizations." It has supported the restoration of Russia with its "natural borders" (which the party believes include Belarus, Ukraine and other former Soviet republics). It sees the unification of Russia and Belarus as a first step in the restoration. The LDPR regards the United States and the Western civilization as the main external threat to Russia.

The party's organization is almost entirely centered on its charismatic leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LDPR_%28political_party%29#Platform

Zhirinovsky also advocated for all Chinese and Japanese to be deported from the Russian Far East. During his 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. Zhirinovsky has expressed admiration for the 1996 United States presidential election contender Pat Buchanan ...

"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."

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 Poland). He has advocated forcibly retaking Alaska from the United States (which would then become "a great place to put the Ukrainians&quot

At a press conference in April, when asked whether Russians should reciprocate the Ukrainian sex strike, he replied that all Ukrainian women were "nymphomaniacs" like the journalist who had asked the question, Stella Dubovitskaya. He then ordered two of his aides to "violently rape" the pregnant journalist for Rossiya Segodnya, who had to be briefly hospitalised for shock.

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

Militarism, nationalism, law-and-order, homophobia, anti-Semitism, misogyny. I would say that fascist is a mild term to use about the LPDR and Zhirinovsky.