....AS ZHIRINOVSKII FINALLY TELLS ABOUT HIS OWN BACKGROUND
On 30 November, ORT screened a biographical program about him in which
Zhirinovskii -- long known for his xenophobic and anti-Semitic
comments -- speaks openly for the first time about his own ethnicity.
He said that his Russian mother was originally married to a Russian
KGB officer, with whom she had five children. After her first husband
died, she married Zhirinovskii's father, a Polish Jew named Wolf
Zhirinovskii, who abandoned his family when Zhirinovskii was three
years old. Meanwhile, NTV announced on 5 December that it has accepted
Zhirinovskii's apology for inappropriate behavior during and after a
recent campaign debate (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 4 December 2003) and
will lift a ban that it imposed on him following that incident. VY
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