Quote Originally Posted by Hanna View Post
Secondly, who is the biggest "threat" to Edinaya Rossia? Is it the Liberals or the Communists?
Hanna, although Zhirinovsky's party is called "liberal democratic party of Russia" no one even in Russia called Zhirinovsky a liberal, even himself. Moreover, I think if anyone called Zhirinovsky a liberal in a discussion he could take it as an insult. (Term "liberal" gained negative meaning in Russia after so-called "liberal reforms" in early 90s although those reforms were not liberal at all, they were just robbing and totally criminal). Zhirinovsky registered and named his party in early 90s when the words "democratic" and "liberal" were extremely popular and beeing a populist he used them, but his rethoric always was ultra-populistic, nationalistic and pro-goverment in general. The party name became quite a brand since then so he decided to keep it I guess despite the terms became unpopular, he and his party members don't use the full name of the party because of that, only abbrеviation - LDPR. Communist is the main treat currently among registered candidates and I personally realising that, vote for them currently, just being pragmatic, not because I share all their views (I think, for example, that Stalin was a monster and horrible dictator and Zuganov says he was a great lider and the greatest hero ever). The main threat to Putin IMHO is well-educated middle class population of big cities who don't support Putin and EdRO in general, but unfortunately there is curently no "legal" political party or registered candidate in current president elections which presents that group. Yavlinsky could be called such a candidate at some extend, but Putin realised that and threw him off the race.