Eurasia Party
The
Eurasia Party was registered as a political party by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on 21 June 2002, approximately one year after the Pan-Russian Eurasia Movement was established by
Alexander Dugin. This means that the party enjoys full rights within the Russian political process.
The Eurasia Party is based on the following five principles.
- It is a geopolitical party of the patriots 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, and Buddhism. 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 also Tatar, 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, and family values.
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 the September 11 terrorist attacks] in order to strengthen their positions in Central 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 her geopolitical, geostrategic, economic concerns, on the contrary, are close to Russia-Eurasia.
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 fight separatism, 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.
Note: The largely pro-Putin Eurasia Party led by Alexander Dugin is distinct from the semi-opposition Eurasian Party (with -n at the end) led by Abd al-Wahed Niyazov.
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