Zhirinovsky Meets Far-Right German Leader
Russian ultranationalist leader Vladimir V. Zhirinovsky met German right-wing politician Gerhard Frey on Tuesday, embracing him and calling him “my friend.”
Zhirinovsky, whose strong showing in the Russian elections has alarmed Moscow’s reformist leadership and the West, conferred for 15 minutes with Frey, whose party has campaigned against foreign immigrants and for the reclamation of old German lands from Poland.
The meeting of two of Europe’s most radical right-wing politicians took place at Munich’s airport where Zhirinovsky stopped over on a brief tour of Germany and Austria.
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