Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "On 6 February 2012, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the far-right populist leader of the nationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, released a 30-second election video on the Internet that featured him on a sleigh which was harnessed with a black donkey. Zhirinovsky later claimed he owned the animal and that the animal was named Proshka (Russian: Прошка, diminutive from Prokhor), after Mikhail Prokhorov, another candidate in the Russian presidential election, 2012. The video was named Troika at the official site of the LDPR, but was distributed on YouTube under the following tile: "Zhirinovsky beats donkey!".In the video, Zhirinovsky claimed that the "little wretched donkey" is the symbol of Russia and that if he would become President a "daring troika" would return as a symbol of the country, which "got stuck" at one place just as the donkey. After this, Zhirinovsky whipped the animal to move the sleigh across the snow-covered backyard of his dacha.Animal welfare and rights organizations accused Zhirinovsky of cruelty to animals in relation to this advertisement. Zhirinovsky was also accused of disdain towards the people of Russia. The video became a subject of wide discussion in the Runet and the Russian media, including presidential TV debates and comedy shows involving Zhirinovsky."@en }
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- Vladimir_Zhirinovskys_donkey_video abstract "On 6 February 2012, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the far-right populist leader of the nationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, released a 30-second election video on the Internet that featured him on a sleigh which was harnessed with a black donkey. Zhirinovsky later claimed he owned the animal and that the animal was named Proshka (Russian: Прошка, diminutive from Prokhor), after Mikhail Prokhorov, another candidate in the Russian presidential election, 2012. The video was named Troika at the official site of the LDPR, but was distributed on YouTube under the following tile: "Zhirinovsky beats donkey!".In the video, Zhirinovsky claimed that the "little wretched donkey" is the symbol of Russia and that if he would become President a "daring troika" would return as a symbol of the country, which "got stuck" at one place just as the donkey. After this, Zhirinovsky whipped the animal to move the sleigh across the snow-covered backyard of his dacha.Animal welfare and rights organizations accused Zhirinovsky of cruelty to animals in relation to this advertisement. Zhirinovsky was also accused of disdain towards the people of Russia. The video became a subject of wide discussion in the Runet and the Russian media, including presidential TV debates and comedy shows involving Zhirinovsky.".