And don't @ me about them being "part of the other side" or "dead."
"Another nail in #putins coffin?" 🤣 🤣 🤣
As the controversial #Russian politician #Zhirinovsky (now deceased) said in 2016, #Putin supported #Assad for 13 years after the #Arab_Spring for a reason. He and #Iran did everything possible to ensure that oil and, primarily, gas from #Qatar, the #UAE, and #Saudi_Arabia could not flow to the #EU via the cheapest route—through pipelines.
"Attending a first step towards the de-Nazification of Russia" you could call it
#Putin also attended the funeral of far-right politician Vladimir #Zhirinovsky.
NEW INVESTIGATION: The family of Vladimir #Zhirinovsky, a controversial elder statesman of Russian #politics and leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of #Russia, owns #undeclared property worth an estimated $135 million.