ussian Bad Boy Bashes Big Macs.

With characteristic brashness, Russian ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky ripped apart a Big Mac and trampled on it Wednesday.

The move aimed to slam home Zhirinovsky's point that he doesn't like Western fast food and wants parliament to limit imports. Zhirinovsky said his party, the third largest in parliament's lower house, would demand that the British and Belgian ambassadors be deported. That's because their countries are "the main exporters of poisonous beef," he told the ITAR-Tass news agency.

He was referring to the "mad cow" crisis and reports earlier this summer that banned British beef may have been illegally exported to Russia through Belgium.

"This is not real meat," he said Wednesday as he tore into the burger. This might be sour grapes. Zhirinovsky has recently opened a small grocery store in Moscow, where nationalist polemics are dished out along with meat and his name-brand vodka.

His fling at business doesn't quite measure up to McDonald's, though. The chain is expanding rapidly in Moscow and its restaurants are some of the few places where Russians still line up for food.