RUSSIA: NATIONALIST VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY ORGANISES BANQUET FOR FRANCE'S JEAN-MARIE LE PEN

Record ID: 566035

  • Title: RUSSIA: NATIONALIST VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY ORGANISES BANQUET FOR FRANCE'S JEAN-MARIE LE PEN
  • Date: 10th February 1996
  • Summary: MOSCOW, RUSSIA (FEBRUARY 10, 1996) (REUTERS TELEVISION - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV INT BANQUET HALL AT MOZHAISKY RESIDENCE IN MOSCOW 0.06 2. SV ULTRA NATIONAL VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY AND FRENCH RIGHT-WINGER JEAN-MARIE LE PEN STANDING NEAR TABLE 0.16 3. SV GUESTS AT BANQUET 0.20 4. SV ZHIRINOVSKY TALKING 0.35 5. SV LE PEN TALKING TO ZHIRINOVSKY (LE PEN HAS STRIPED TIE) 0.54 6. GV GUESTS EATING 0.57 7. SV LE PEN GIVES A MAN A BADGE 1.11 8. SV ZHIRINOVSKY PROPOSING TOAST / ZHIRINOVSKY AND LE PEN DRINK A TOAST (2 SHOTS) 1.45 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 25th February 1996 12:00
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  • Location: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
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  • Country: Russia
  • Reuters ID: LVA8QQJQPO4TV3O0X5ZCT46I5S11
  • Story Text: Russian ultra-nationalist leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky on Saturday (February 10) organised a lavish banquet for Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of France's Front Nacionale, who is on a brief unofficial visit to Russia.

    At a news conference punctuated with jokes, bonhomie and Zhirinovsky's occasional sallies in a fluent if rusty French, the two right-wingers hailed each other's presidential ambitions and said only robust patriotism could avert war in Europe. They toasted one another with champagne and vodka.

    Zhirinovsky, who invited Le Pen to a lavish silver wedding party he is throwing on Sunday (February 11) to launch his campaign for Russia's presidential election in June, said he hoped representatives from Italy, Austria, Germany and Spain would meet in Moscow in April.

    Zhirinovsky, whose Liberal Democratic Party won 11 percent of the vote in Russia's parliamentary vote in December, repeated his open invitation to Moscow's homeless to sample the "sea of vodka" laid on for his silver wedding in a suburban church.


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