Russia vows no Ukraine invasion as leaders seek solution

[MNBrewer]

40. Is Oleh Tyahnybok running Ukraine? Funny I don't see his name listed as being a Cabinet Minister

But over the border in Russia we have...

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, whose party holds 56 of the 450 seats in the Duma.

(Wikipedia)

"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." Buchanan strongly rejected this endorsement, saying he would provide safe haven to persecuted minorities if Zhirinovsky were ever elected Russia's president, eliciting a harsh response by Zhirinovsky: "You soiled your pants as soon as you got my congratulations. Who are you afraid of: Zionists?" Zhirinovsky 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?" Another frequently cited quote from Zhirinovsky is "My mother was Russian and my father was a lawyer".

Besides expressing his concern for Turks and Caucasians displacing the Russian population from their native territory, Zhirinovsky also advocated for all Chinese and Japanese to be deported from the Russian Far East. 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."
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Russia is "concerned" about Ukrainian fascists and nationalists but seems quite at home with Russian fascists and nationalists.