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The LDPR (Russian: ЛДПР) formerly the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (Russian: Либерально-Демократическая Партия России – Liberal’no-Demokraticheskaya Partiya Rossii) is a far-right political party in Russia. Since its founding in 1991 it has been led by the charismatic and controversial figure Vladimir Zhirinovsky. Opposing both communism and the wild capitalism of the 1990s the party scored a major success in the 1993 Russian Duma elections receiving a plurality of votes.
