Terrifying prediction resurfaces six years after Zhirinovsky’s death

A warning about plague made by former leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia Vladimir Zhirinovsky in 2020 has resurfaced in social media and the media.

TodayPress TV reports that at the time, the politician referred to cases of plague recorded in Mongolia and China, warning that Russia was also at risk.

Speaking in the State Duma, Zhirinovsky said:

“The plague is at our borders. We are being given false information that we are not under threat. This disease threatens Mongolians and Chinese, but it does not affect Russians? You move just five meters forward and you are already in Russia. Two hundred people will die, and then you will announce quarantine!”

He also warned that the country was facing more difficult times, including hunger, unemployment and other diseases, and criticized the authorities for failing to take the threat of infections seriously.

His remarks were recalled again in October 2026 following the death of an employee of an anti-plague institute in Russia’s Irkutsk region. Although suspicions of plague emerged in connection with the incident, Russian authorities, including Rospotrebnadzor, said there had been no laboratory accident and that the disease had not been confirmed. Nevertheless, neighboring Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan strengthened sanitary controls at their borders.

Zhirinovsky died in 2022. Many of his predictions, including this warning, have continued to be discussed publicly after his death.

Turkan Iskandarli