Vladimir Zhirinovsky did not like his reception in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, so he occupied the governor's office Monday to demand some respect. Zhirinovsky was met at the airport Sunday by demonstrators who called him a fascist and told him to go home to Moscow. The governor and other regional administrators refused to meet with him and a balloon floated over the city bearing the words: "Zhirinovsky won't succeed." The region's reformist governor, Sergei Nemtsov, was out of town, but Zhirinovsky took over his office Monday morning and refused to leave until lawmakers met with him, Interfax said. Zhirinovsky called his treatment a "serious violation of the law on the status of a people's deputy, and of the Russian Constitution," accused the governor's aides of organizing the hecklers, and called for Nemtsov's resignation and imprisonment, ITAR-Tass reported.
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