 to seize Alaska from the United States, to launch a nuclear strike on Japan, to flood Germany with radioactive waste, and to occupy the Baltic states.
"You are standing in our way to the sea ports," he told an Estonian interviewer.
Mr Zhirinovsky has been expelled from Bulgaria for insulting its president, and barred from entry to Germany.
His party, the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), has also allied itself with a radical Serbian party.
The LDPR was the first political party to be officially registered in the Soviet Union, after the Communist Party itself, leading many to ask whether it was, in fact, a creation of the Soviet authorities.
The year before, Mr Zhirinovsky is remembered as having been the director of a Jewish cultural organisation called Shalom, which was created by the Soviet government to rival another independent Jewish movement emerging under Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost.
The suspicion that, at some deep level, Mr Zhirinovsky is loyal to the Russian authorities has been bolstered by his party's voting record in parliament - more often than not it supports government initiatives.
The party also has a record of parliamentary brawling. In 1995 Mr Zhirinovsky was seen on television pulling the hair and attempting to throttle a female deputy, Yevgenia Tishkovskaya, as she tried to prevent another nationalist deputy beating up a priest in the debating chamber.
Mr Zhirinovsky also threw juice in the face of a political rival, Boris Nemtsov, during a television debate in which Mr Nemtsov goaded him about his sex life.
Mr Zhirinovsky famously promised free vodka if voters supported him in the presidential election of 1991, in which he came third.
Latterly his political platform has been less clearly defined.
He has threatened to stage a military confrontation with the USA in the Persian Gulf, break international sanctions against Iraq, remove restrictions on arms sales to Iran, and sell the disputed Kurile islands to Japan for $50b.
He has promised voters a "stormy", but interesting life.
In an article published in the Moscow Times, Russian political image makers enthused over Mr Zhirinovsky's choice of clothes to express his political personality.
"His disgusting loosened tie and unbuttoned shirts are brilliant finds," said photographer Anton Lange.
"His facial expressions and gestures are organic details of his personality and policy."
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Links to more Europe storiesBAY COUNTY, Fla. (WMBB) – As homeowners are acutely aware, it is property tax season among the local taxing authorities.
That means, the school system, the county and every local city is trying to determine if they will raise taxes. During a normal year, taxes usually stay the same or are sometimes even decrease in The Panhandle.
However, this is not a normal year. Hurricane Michael caused billions in damages to local property which sent lifelong residents and members of the military out of the area.
Given these realities, local government agencies either have to cut spending or raise taxes.
The Bay County Property Appraisers Office includes a tax estimator on their website.
Currently, a Panama City resident has to pay taxes to the city, Bay County, Bay District Schools, Bay County Mosquito Control and the Northwest Florida Water Management District. This resident currently pays 4.35 mills to the city, 4.4362 to the county, 6.122 to the school district, 0.2 to mosquito control and 0.0338 to the water management district.
For someone with a home valued at $100,000 that translates to $435 to the city, $443.62 to the county, $612.20 to the school district, $20 to mosquito control, and $3.38 to the water management district for a total of $1,514.20.
One mill equals about $100 per $100,000 in value, with the current value at 4.35 mills. So if the city raises its millage rate by 1 mill (to 5.35 mills) the city resident with a $100,000 home will go from paying $435 to paying $535 next year.
For a $200,000 home a Panama City resident currently pays the city $870. If the millage raise is raised by one mill they will pay $1,070 next year.
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