2 Assailants Wound Zhirinovsky Deputy
Two assailants shot and wounded lawmaker Alexander Vengerovsky, right-hand man to ultranationalist leader Vladimir V. Zhirinovsky, on Monday night as he was walking his dog.
Vengerovsky was attacked near his home in downtown Moscow, said Viktor Cheryomukhin, a spokesman for parliament’s lower house.
Police declined to provide details of the shooting. But the Interfax news agency quoted Vengerovsky’s wife as saying the lawmaker was hospitalized with a leg wound. And the Itar-Tass news agency quoted medics as saying Vengerovsky was treated for a superficial wound to his kneecap that did not require hospitalization.
Vengerovsky is deputy chairman of Zhirinovsky’s Liberal Democratic Party. He is widely seen as Zhirinovsky’s No. 2 man.
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