The coffin carrying the veteran firebrand Russian ultra-nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky leaves the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow. The politician -- who was reported to have been in grave condition after being hospitalised in early February with Covid -- died after a "serious and prolonged illness", the head of the lower house of parliament, Vyacheslav Volodin, said on Wednesday.

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