he's telling. me. don't ask. for. my. three thirty pm in moscow these iraqi headlines grade a spare and the will to use it police mace of peaceful student protest at a california university as the national crackdown on the occupy movement intensifies. italy gives final approval to its new prime minister tasked with breaking orders of the country's finances while in spades voters are prepared to pay for the leader they hope will be their fiscal savior. thousands of egyptians back in tahrir square calling for the military to relinquish its rule after

a controversial paper proposes to make its power permanent. and next many consider him the most outlandish of russia's politicians up next i'll go to talks with latin years you're in the liberal democrats ahead of next month's parliamentary elections stay with us. hello again a welcome to scott lively in for michel martin i'm older not when they were talking about russian politics seven parties are campaigning for seats in the state duma the lower chambre of the russian parliament for the first time ever the m.p.'s will be elected for five years ahead of course and this makes the campaign more intriguing their use of the general election will take place up to seven before and as the campaign goes on we continue our pretty elektra interviews but like gives

you a unique opportunity to hear from the leaders of all the parties and today we have blood on your feet and off steam ahead of the liberal democrats. reaching out to everyone in the crowd the first of a political party to really build a populist in paul soviet russia was the liberal democratic party it's logans have always been clear and simple like no taxes for small business or doubling salaries for teachers and a populist tactic has worked so far the party has always gained its share of seats in the state duma. the first officially sanctioned opposition party in the soviet union the liberal democratic party of russia was founded in one thousand nine hundred a year before the collapse of the us ceasar throughout the two decades of its existence the party has been centered around its highly charismatic leader vladimir

zhirinovsky. his first political breakthrough came in one nine hundred ninety one and he came in third at russia's first presidential election. he's eccentric behavior or temper and sharp tongue have made him one of the most conspicuous personalities on russia's political arena as well as a media darling in nineteen ninety three to my election was the biggest success for the liberal democratic party which gives up twenty three percent of the world more than of its rivals although afterwards it could never come close to was good a result the party's populist rhetoric and the care isn't all that silly that have so far guaranteed it seats in russia's state duma. for the wish hello mr sharon all skipping cure for the with us to begin with guarding your campaign agenda are you happy with the russians current foreign policy do you still consider the united states to be russia's mean potential

adversary. in policies and foreign affairs in general are all parties strongest point i am writing a book right now titled becoming orient where i lay out outtake on all major foreign policy issues your personal strong point because of your background. oh yes my first degree was in international relations. in principle russia's present foreign policies are smarter than they were in soviet times and under president yeltsin but we still see some drawbacks i mean our stance could be tough for us take north africa we should have blocked any u.n. security council resolution and prevented any air strikes against libya. the same thing our party demanded during nader's yugoslavia contain. russia must not allow

any country in the world to be bombed no military intervention should be authorized except for somalia maybe. the whole world is faced with somali piracy with ships being hijacked brazenly secondly it is unacceptable that russian citizens should be arrested and incarcerated anywhere outside russia such as the latest case in the jigga stand where an unfair verdict and an eight year prison sentence were handed down to people whose actions had nothing to do with border violation of smuggling finally russian women are sometimes deprived of their children not only in islamic countries but also in places like norway or france therefore we feel russia should be tougher and more steadfast and assertive in its foreign policies as well as more explicit in stating its interests i'll bid for w.t. org session for one shouldn't be such a soap opera with deadlines constantly shifted and everything depending upon george's consent. it leaves a bad aftertaste you know. but still they have readily

accepted economies like kurdistan to latvia they are a tours with russia despite its vast potential that in the us soviet foreign policy was regarded as the number one enemy sundry alternate was almost perceived is our number one friend is it friend or four for us today enemy number one in the us yes and larry danger is one of that why the us aspires to global domination it has military economic and financial assets in place. and russia is the only nation still capable of challenging it even given all our recent departures from the great salvage legacy. the americans remain our adverse three and they work day and night on the minus. what about china take the case of you to boot why did the us snatch they know perfectly well he didn't do any criminal shipments but their point was to bully us sure they can arrest the guy and put him in jail it was the

same story with the irish and co a pilot jailed for some alleged intentions a similar scenario was recently employed to stand prompted by the americans georgia kept harassing us and eventually assaulted us do things like us really would have ever dared that on his own no way it was all directed from washington the baltic states any dirty tricks against russia or orchestrated by the us and have be ever since may nine hundred forty five. and supporting certainly of europe or america in terms of pirelli freedom eric recently is it more rewarding for russia to be america's friend or opponent well even americans would come to grips with the reality the best option for both our nations would be to strike and buy less was to egypt of course and to hell with the rest of the world including china the u. the muslim world and all us allies and all of russia's foremost so-called friends it should be just moscow and washington the two of us in charge of all affairs our two presidents should meet once a year in a neutral location let's say in vienna by

a single hotel and go through all the shoes and agree on things that's it everything else would follow suit and it would be much cheaper and there probably wouldn't be a global economic crisis but the american still seem to think they can manage it all without us they can see europe is grumbling because you will lose the elections so france will get a new president the us has been unable to sway these lemming world whereas they would have managed it with russia's support china is also a growing concern for them therefore the time will come when they will pursue a bilateral accord with us because nature will eventually collapse and so will the e.u.'s the euro zone. your party and yourself have a reputation as ultranationalists at least there's high. would you agree with that how else would you describe your attitude. we have never considered ourselves an ultra nationalist party or nationalists resort to force. the issue point

blank one ethnic group is better than the rest. they preach racial prejudice we do none of that but we realize that the russian people are in a difficult situation of the moment to certain circumstances. the soviet authorities to blame for that the communist party that they fought against. in that sense they should agree with us all we want is to stop discrimination against the russians the russian people form the core of the nation. in that sense there is nothing to write about our ideas were in favor of territorial rather than ethnic divisions and wages practiced in the u.s. u.k. india and the rest of the world there is nothing about our slogans or russians that should be surprising to them or raise questions that it was about us. of but ethnic division is practiced in the u.k. he arlin in scotland populated by slightly different ethnic groups you're slower

than liberal democrats for the russians in the u.k. would then become liberal democrats win the english for the british what for the english only and that would be perceived as ultra nationalist could you please explain your slogan to us the english run the world today or the anglo saxons to be more precise what you mean to see the british or the endless saxons the british and the americans there is a distinction between the bush and the british i agree i mean the adult saxons not the scottish or the irish the ethnic group that created the british empire. today we can say that it's a body it is in the us and its head is in london. then the saxon civilization let's call it this way controls the majority of the western world. it controls nato the euro and etc. but the more we have the russian world which we control i am referring to the slavic world with orthodox christians and catholic

poland. they have their own backyard we have ours. so when you see that liberal democrats are for the russians jeannine ethnic russians or the russian nation just like we said earlier the english or the british. we mean the russian civilization. with nothing blood parentage birthplace religion or even language should be the criteria of whether or not a person is russian we say should be down to your own self identification like i. do you identify yourself as russian just be russian no need to cry it out loud. if you don't want to be russian if you say you are a jew a church and a tautology. you're welcome to consider yourself whatever you want we will not force it on people. when you go into issues special papers or set up camps or try

them down or return the nationality entry to passports or make them feel like force . even then densify themselves as russian their russians as simple as that we do not want finland or poland or a part of japan but russians are a divided people there are plenty of them in ukraine in bellerose a northern cousin standish there are a lot of russians in canada they are descent russians then numerous and if they want to better relationships with russia we would be happy to see them back home welcome if any russians are watching right now let me tell of. stop fooling around and come back to russia from canada the us britain france germany and all the countries of the world that will be ten million reach educated cultured people coming back to russia they do here they call their model and they must heed the calling of their ancestors who lived in russia i know why i told them to return back to russia but if they don't want to fight is the proud business everything should be voluntary and the decision should come straight from heart without any

pressure no one will be forced to declare his nationality it should be a russian civilization a russian world it could be even simpler them that could be a union of those who speak the russian language those who want to communicate in russian need to help each other. says let him enter sure enough he had all of the liberal democrats spotlight will be back shortly after the break so stay with us. wealthy british style. market why not. why not what's really happening to the global economy

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crash seven. teams just like us it can cause an in street the i.m.f. spokesman just programs increase the total economy. welcome back to spotlight i'm all going off and just the reminder that my guest in the studio is of let's you know if you have ski head of the liberal democrats. when you watch mr zhirinovsky another campaign slogan of your party reid says hold those liberal democrats for the poor but i think the last time it was impulsive the party headed by vladimir lenin that used the slogan in nine hundred seventeen don't you fear it could play against you. we are not afraid of any historical comparisons our

party out holds the freedom of discussion i reject any left wing political ideology because we believe these are defeatist views that have no future and when we say that we stand for the poor we don't mean that we are against the rich rather our aim is to help them get rich we don't think to sprott grid assets from someone and give them to the needy we want to remove any hurdles that prevent the majority of the poor from getting wealthy that's the message of our slogan there can be no historical comparisons no similar examples no connections to the polls although most of it's we absolutely reject anything of the sort of really you're an old timer in the russian parliament and during all these years you have the decisions of the ruling party however recently you have stepped up your criticism and we've seen a mounting confrontation with the party in power what is angered you so much what did you become disappointed with the united russia party prime minister putin and

president invented. the initial stage ten or eleven years ago there was a striking contrast with the yeltsin era the last decade was marked by tougher policies fight against crime an attempt to pacify the caucasus or bring justice to those who are massed their fortunes unfairly alike could get others consolidation of territories appointment of governors these were the measures we were quite satisfied with but in recent years these processes were put on hold in particular consolidation of territories. regions were removed from the map we believe that half of the regions should go to russia should only have forty regions forty provinces each with a populations of three to four million people in small regions should be incorporated into their bigger neighbors but that's not happening. at our cost he's the only one in jail while many more need to be punished shouldn't be necessarily

prison sentences but they should return the money into economy we're talking of hundreds of billions of u.s. dollars why were the budget funds about thirty percent channeled abroad between two thousand and eight and two thousand and ten. why is there so little support to a culture why is the cost of a road so i was not called dismissed just a year ago that means there have been a lot of mistakes they've made big promises but we don't have the roads the housing program was not completed the healthcare program was not completed either the same with trade and the pharmaceuticals market the drug problem is still there and basically there is not a single major issue that has been tackled with positive results and that's the reason why we have been against it and will continue to be extremely critical so there was a time when you got the power it was when he had the majority in the parliament deliver on your promises then i don't think so we didn't have the technical majority party just came first in the election but al faction listed only sixty

four deputies whereas you would generally need two hundred twenty six voices to pass any decisions it was the stadium or with a shorter than usual mandate we served just two years then we would be happy to exercise our power but we didn't have the conditions we spoke out against several candidates for the position of a prime minister in a secret ballot we voted against kerry and coach earning their dinner and in an open ballot we voted against primakov we voted against the budget drafts since two thousand and nine two thousand and eleven and again the recovery program worked out by the government we would have done the. differently we have plenty of money we must introduce a state monopoly on alcohol tobacco and sugar russia should not export its natural resources gas oil coal but instead process it domestically we should consume everything here and start helping anyone else russia does have the conditions for us to pollute our slogans to why we must cancel all taxes for our region of the far

east and switch on to a tax free colony there it would spur economic growth but what has the united russia party done and those who were in power before it they introduced especially konami exult in the market down region did it work no they cut ticket prices for pensioners and students did it work look all those steps did not work in contrast our plan would be to introduce a tax free economy to the whole russia's far east we seek to get rid of the standardized state exam and step up the fight against corruption and against terrorists our platform provides for more effective and swift changes we need more homes for us citizens so let's start building more houses we don't just criticize the united russia party when pushing left the office of president he said there was only one thing he wasn't able to tackle corruption or corruption is the key problem ls we overcome corruption we will not manage to solve any issue four years have passed but they haven't sold any issues present preventive said this is a dead end but liberal democrats give you

a fourth option the soviet policy failed yeltsin's was a failed event even couldn't cause a slowdown to hold so we offer a fourth option that will give us the opportunity to move ahead. you always give so many promises you don't agree that you're a party of nationalists would you agree that you're a party of cultural populist no definitely no i want to clear it out you were the first politician in russia to gain support through populism with the help of your personal popularity by populism you mean by protection of the rights of ordinary people then my reply would be positive were other promising to protect the ordinary people but if by populism you mean promises that can't be kept then i would say no all. promises can be if you can overcome corruption certainly really absolutely so put in doesn't want to tackle corruption you fail to meet it if they don't want to they failed. why don't you tackle it yes we can use modern commutes point to me why you can to. we need to dismiss half of the country's governors replace the cabinet

three new the parliament get rid of its upper chamber count the expenses the number of deputies and hold elections less often consolidate the territories and give people the opportunity to build homes for themselves with power gas huge and water supply facilities provided full free by the state what about traffic jams in moscow is not a real problem the reason is that the roads have been turned into parking lots we should ban all these parking lot but no car shall park on the road that's the case in europe what would you call it populism oh my proposals have become reality in europe or are being implemented i don't promise the onset of communism it will never happen i propose a forty percent limit on palm entry seats for all parties but when the two let's go back to corruption infects all of your proposals who are good in practice twenty years ago when you also replaced gorbachev you launched a major reshuffle here a new department and the staff of all the state agencies but there resulted in the nearly five ain't crease in the number of officials when the level of corruption

beating that of the soviet times they did what you propose no it didn't work no you forgot why the earth least everyone you figure out the main thing. that says liberal democrats for the russians. i will pin my hopes on the russian people i will tell them russians this is your home country it's time to wake up it's time to stop fearing and giving in putting up with humiliation take the power in your hands here it is i'm giving it to you the party has won and since you voted for us let us take the necessary steps let us grow down on corrupt officials let us use video surveillance let us cut on red tape. let us introduce house arrest and electronic ankle bracelets all decisions will be taken swiftly i don't have friends among governess i will fire seventy percent of them the same with city mayors they must be appointed without approval of local parliaments getting rid of red tape taken all decisions quickly we will declare an amnesty and hundreds of thousands of prisoners will be free but will not support repressions we want to free as many

people from jails as possible everyone needs to have a job we will starve the use of migrant labor and there won't be a single migrant in the country what will happen they will go back home to the chicken stand who will do all the construction work russians yes russians but they don't do that they will but they don't want to they don't they do you know they don't want to you can publish an advert saying you need two cleaners in one of moscow's districts for a salary of a thousand us dollars you will see russians coming to work in two hours we will release a list with the full wages that the migrants are supposed to get officially and the russians will replace them in no time we will do that no one has tried to solve the problem that way i promise you we will tackle the issue so far no one's done that but we surely will also i suggest conducting an experiment let's suspend the train service between the tadg a capital dusenberry and moscow and you will see that everything will work as usual the one thing we won't have is the huge number of illegal migrants as

a result crimes and diseases will be on the decline and the locals will have the workplaces they need. to refer to developed economies around the world. looting the american and european ones but both in the us and europe there are a lot of loot qualified and low paid jobs that are done by migrants both legal and illegal explain it to you that's the case in the netherlands and in the us. their local communities don't want to do that they want to be architects engineers and managers people are willing to do that they're asking for a simple job they want to sow and reap bread to dig ditches they are eager to work there are five million unemployed and another five million underemployed i've seen these people is half an hour they're ready to get down to any world after days and it over two migrants we will show it when we introduce a ban on migrants we won't have a single jobless person in this country. action is

a political process do you think there's anything that should be changed in russia's political system absolutely i told you that the best form of democracy is a palm and republic that's our goal for the future the poem and consisting of just one chamber and numbering two hundred deputies will then alack a president for a five year tour so we will appoint a government that will be accountable to the palm end and will fire ministers once we see that they are not be forming enough then people will feel the difference will set a threshold for the number of members that apology needs to get to registered one hundred thousand supporters if you have a hundred thousand supporters your party will be registered if no the party is banned it there will be just three parties left united russia of the communists and the liberal democrats the remaining three parties shall be out and into the dustbin of history they will not be part of the political system and you longer everything

will be in compliance with law and order no violence no repressions and then the russians will see that this is a country for them. it will be followed by an explosion of cars. of emotions and economic boom people will cheer up again today russians are oppressed downtrodden humiliated and abused but there is no place for them in the constitution television radio and the press are full of through the public propaganda we will change that immediately i think spice it was thank you very much for being with us today and just to wonder that my guest was glad he never showed enough skin leader of the liberal democratic party to push and that's it stood out from all of us here if you want to have your say on spotlight or have someone in montana think i seem to be in a start to drop tail spotlight will be back with more firsthand comments on what's going on outside bush until then stay on our team and take. president out of the.