Vladimir Zhirinovsky 2018 presidential campaign

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Vladimir Zhirinovsky for President

Campaigned for	2018 Russian presidential election
Candidate	Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Affiliation	Liberal Democratic Party
Status	Announced: 28 October 2016 Official nominee: 20 December 2017 Registered candidate: 29 December 2017 Lost election: 18 March 2018
Headquarters	Moscow
Key people	Chief of staff: Alexei Didenko
Receipts	200,001,004.20 roubles[1]
Slogan	Мощный рывок вперёд (A Powerful Leap Forward)[2]

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The 2018 presidential campaign of Vladimir Zhirinovsky, deputy of the State Duma and leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, was announced on 28 October 2016.^[3] Zhirinovsky was officially nominated on 20 December 2017 at the Liberal Democratic Party's 31st annual congress.^[4] He submitted to the Central Election Commission the documents required for registration the next day.^[5]

According to Mikhail Degtyarev, Zhirinovsky planned to hold the largest campaign in the history of the party.^[6] The party's objective was to get Zhirinovsky into the second round, and then win it.^[7]