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November 3rd, 2005

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Bad news is bad news!

Liberal Democratic Party of Russia

The Russian Duma today rejected a media bill suggesting a limit be placed on the quantity of negative information per newspaper edition, radio or TV news program, by 10 percent. The Duma said that “concealing negative information would in the end work against the citizens of Russia.” Well duh! I guess some people still want to live in that lost communist paradise which only existed in pamphlets and broadcasts. The bill was forwarded by the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (some info in English), led by the infamous Kazahkstan-born Jew Vladmir Zhirinovsky, whose manifesto reveals some of its other admirable policy goals:

“To strengthen legislative and executive power, to ensure total control over all money trails, to transfer argicultural and natural assets to the state, and to fight separatism.”Â?

Sounds ever so liberal and democratic, don’t you think?

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Curzon
November 3, 2005
9:24 pm
Kaplan once said about Japan's Liberal Democrats were "neither liberal nor democratic." It's partially true -- and way, way more applicable to Russia.
Dan
November 4, 2005
1:26 am
Too bad the American Congress isn't so pro-free-speech.
Alfred Russel Wallace
November 4, 2005
6:53 pm
I am a little uneasy that you think Zhirinovsky's religion is worth noting - unless he is making a big deal about it, which I doubt....
Younghusband
November 4, 2005
7:11 pm
I am not making a big deal about it, it is the Russians. He is "accused" of being Jewish, but denies it. It is sorta part of the controversy over Zhirinovsky. There were a number of Jewish apparatchiks around Stalin as well, but they all kept quiet about it. Like China, some are more equal than others in the workers paradise.
Nathan
November 5, 2005
1:46 am
When asked, he usually says, "My mother was Russian and my father was a lawyer." Or something like that.
Joe
November 5, 2005
2:17 am
Well, really now, the words "liberal" and "democratic" don't mean anything any more. My balls are liberal and democratic. So why not these political parties, which surely only use the words in their name because they sound nice?
Simon World
November 5, 2005
6:03 pm
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