"Less you know about Russia then more Zhirik's stunts will infuence your brains:)))."
Stunts? - He is in charge of one of the biggest political parties in Russia.
Stop denying that a majority of Russians don't sympathize with most of his positions.
To settle the dispute about Zhirinovsky, let's take a look at the numbers of the last Duma Elections in December 2003. The voter turn out was 54%.
Putin's United Russia 37%
Communists:12.7%
Zhirinovsky party: 11.6%
Motherland (Rodina):9%
The rest of 29.7% were largely pro-Putin allies, although anti-Putin candidates got through too, like Vladimir Ryzhkov.
These elections were likely skewed by manipulations of electoral commission heavily in Putin's party favor to give him nearly 2/3rds of Duma quorum to change the constitution to allow him to run for the third term.
As for Zhirinovsky party, if we assume that 11.6% more or less reflect an accurate picture, it's still a frightening number, but fortunately not a majority. Also keep in mind that whatever Zhirinovsky may utter in public, he usually always votes in accordance to Putin's party.
Also some historical records of Zhirinovsky so called "Liberal Democratic" Party showing in 1990's duma elections during Yeltsin era.
1993: 22.92% (The highest showing so far)
1999: 5.98%
My Conclusion--Zhirinovsky whose party started likely as KGB creature in 1990-1991 to run against Yeltsin when Russian Federation was still part of USSR, is apparently morphed into another Putin ally--a scarecrow for the world to make Putin look like an angel.