Who Was Vladimir Zhirinovsky And What Is His Cause Of Death?

Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky was a Russian politician and leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia.

In March, Zhirinovsky was undergoing treatment for COVID-19 complications such as sepsis and respiratory failure. On 25 March 2022, Zhirinovsky was reported to have died in hospital.

Despite confirmation from several sources, including his own political party, the news was quickly refuted by his family members. On 6 April, the speaker of the Duma announced that Zhirinovsky had died after a long illness.

Zhirinovsky has been described as fiercely nationalist and as “a showman of Russian politics, blending populist and nationalist rhetoric, anti-Western invective and a brash, confrontational style”.

In April 1991 Zhirinovsky, along with Vladimir Bogachev, took initiatives which led to the founding of the Liberal Democratic Party of the Soviet Union, the second registered party in the Soviet Union and therefore the first officially sanctioned opposition party.

According to the former CPSU Politburo member Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev, this party started as a joint project of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) leadership and the KGB.

Yakovlev wrote in his memoirs that KGB director Vladimir Kryuchkov presented the project of the puppet LDPSU party at a meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev and informed him about the selection of the LDPR leader.