Oleg Malyshkin

Oleg Malyshkin is a Russian politician and member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia. He is a member of the Duma and stood for President in the Russian presidential election, 2004.

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Russia - Politician - Liberal Democratic Party of Russia - Duma - Russian presidential election, 2004

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Born in 1951 in Rostov, Malyshkin graduated from the Polytechnic Institute in Novocherkassk as a mining engineer. He was a professional boxer and soccer player, and entered politics in 1991 as a member of Vladimir Zhirinovsky's Liberal Democratic Party of Russia and working in the party offices in Moscow. In 1997 he won election as head of the Tatsinkii Region in Rostov Oblast (1997-2001). He governed the region in an authoritarian, statist manner, introducing strict price controls for food and visiting the grain elevator accompanied by armed guards in order to resolve a dispute between the enterprise and his administration.

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Rostov - Novocherkassk - Vladimir Zhirinovsky - Liberal Democratic Party of Russia - Moscow - Statist

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In 2001 Malyshkin returned to Moscow and resumed his post in the LDPR's head office, becoming Chief of Staff to Vladimir Zhirinovsky's security and being nominated as Vice Chairman of the party.

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Moscow - Vladimir Zhirinovsky

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In 2003 he was elected to the State Duma. He quickly established himself as just as firey and hot-headed as his party's leader, assaulting former prime minister Mikhail Delyagin and Yabloko deputy chairman Sergey Mitrokhin on November 21st 2003.

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State Duma - Mikhail Delyagin - Yabloko - Sergey Mitrokhin

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Malyshkin was a surprise choice for the LDPR's candidate in the Russian presidential election, 2004, as he was barely known outside Tatsinkii and LDPR circles. However, it was widely assumed that Zhirinovsky chose not to run in this election as he realised it would be impossible for him to beat Vladimir Putin. Malyshkin made much of his credentials as a worker in the election, but found it difficult to be taken seriously as a candidate, particularly after his mother said she would not be voting for her son. Malyshkin also said throughout the campaign that, should he win, he would automatically step aside for LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky.

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Russian presidential election, 2004 - Vladimir Putin - Vladimir Zhirinovsky

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Malyshkin won 1,393,940 votes, for 2% of the poll, coming fifth out of six candidates.

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