- Eurasia Party
Infobox_Political_Party
party_name = Eurasia
"Евразия"
party_
leader =Aleksandr Dugin
membership =
colorcode = blue
foundation =21 June 2002
ideology =eurasianism ,nationalism | headquarters =Moscow
international = none
website = [http://eurasia.com.ru] The Eurasia Party (Russian: "Евразия") was registered as apolitical party by the Ministry of Justice ofRussia on21 June 2002 , approximately one year after the Pan-Russian Eurasia Movement was established byAleksandr Dugin . This means that the party enjoys full rights within the Russian political process.Often seen to be a form of
National Bolshevism , one of the basic ideas that underpin Eurasian theories is thatMoscow ,Berlin , andParis form a "natural"geopolitical axis, because a line or axis from Moscow to Berlin will pass through the vicinity of Paris if extended.They foresee an eternal world conflict between land and sea, and hence, Dugin believes, the
United States and Russia. He says, "In principle,Eurasia and our space, theheartland (Russia), remain the staging area of a new anti-bourgeois ,anti-American revolution ." According to his1997 book, "The Basics of Geopolitics", "The new Eurasianempire will be constructed on the fundamental principle of the common enemy: the rejection ofAtlanticism , strategic control of the USA, and the refusal to allow liberal values to dominate us. This commoncivilisation al impulse will be the basis of a political and strategic union."The Eurasia Party was founded by Dugin on the eve of
George W. Bush 's visit to Russia at the end ofMay 2002 . The party hopes to play a key role in attempts to resolve theChechen problem , with the objective of setting the stage for Dugin's dream of a Russianstrategic alliance with European andMiddle East ern states, primarilyIran .Platform
The Eurasia Party is based on the following five principles:
# It is a geopolitical party of the
patriot s of Russia, of the étatists.
# It is a social party, believing that the development of the market must serve the national interest. Interests of the state are in command and administrative resources must be de-privatized.
# It is a traditionalist party, founded on a system of values elaborated by the traditional Eurasian confessions – Orthodoxy,Islam ,Judaism , andBuddhism . The Church is rightly separated from the State; but it is inseparable from the society, culture, education, and information.
# It is a national party. In it the representatives of the national movements – first of all, Russian but alsoTatar ,Yakut ,Tuva , Chechen,Kalmyk ,Ingush , and all the rest – can find a way to express their political and cultural aspirations.
# It is a regional party. The rectification and salvation of Russia will come from the regions, where the people have saved their roots, solidarity, the sentiment of the land, nature, fellowship, andfamily values .Foreign policy
With respect to foreign policy, the Eurasia Party believes that:
* The path the West has taken is destructive. Its civilization is spiritually empty, false and monstrous. Behind economic prosperity there is a total spiritual degradation.
* The originality of Russia, its difference from both West and East, is a positive value. It must be saved, developed and taken care of.
* The US exploited sorrow of theSeptember 11 terrorist attacks in order to strengthen their positions inCentral Asia . Under the cover of the fight on terrorism, taking roots in the Russian zone of influence, in the Asian countries of the CIS.
* From the cultural, social and political points of view, Europe is close to the US, but its geopolitical,geostrategic , economic concerns, on the contrary, are close to Russia-Eurasia.Domestic policy
With respect to domestic policy, the Eurasia Party intends to:
* Reinforce the strategic unity of Russia, her geopolitical homogeneity, the vertical line of authority, curtail the influence of the oligarchic clans, support national business, and fightseparatism , extremism, localism.
* Promote Eurasist federalism by conferring the status of political subjects onto the ethno-cultural formations and by enforcing the principles of the "rights of the peoples."
* Promote Eurasist economics by encouraging autarchy of the great spaces, economic nationalism, and subordination of the market mechanisms to the concerns of the national economy.Infiltration of Peoples' Global Action
Leonid Savin chairman of the youth wing of the Eurasia Party in
Ukraine successfully infiltratedPeoples' Global Action , staffing their Ukraine info-point for a number of years. He was unmasked and recognition of his group was withdrawn. He then developed links with theBund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland , attending one of their conferences.ee also
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National Bolshevism
*Neo-Eurasianism
*Evraziitsi External links
* [http://eurasia.com.ru/dugin0103_eng.html Theses of Dugin's address to the Political Conference of the Pan-Russian Social-Political Movement Eurasia (March 1, 2002)]
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