The Eurasia Party is a Russian political party. It was registered by the Ministry of Justice on 21 June 2002, approximately one year after the pan-RussianEurasia Movement was established by Aleksandr Dugin. Often seen to be a form of National Bolshevism, one of the basic ideas that underpin Eurasian theories is that Moscow, Berlin and Paris form a natural geopolitical axis because a line or axis from Moscow to Berlin will pass through the vicinity of Paris if extended. Dugin and the party foresee an eternal world conflict between land and sea, between the United States and Russia. He believes: "In principle, Eurasia and our space, the heartland, remain the staging area of a new anti-bourgeois, anti-American revolution". According to Dugin's book The Basics of Geopolitics : "The new Eurasian empire will be constructed on the fundamental principle of the common enemy: the rejection of Atlanticism, strategic control of the USA, and the refusal to allow liberal values to dominate us. This common civilisational impulse will be the basis of a political and strategic union". The Eurasia Party was founded by Dugin shortly before George W. Bush's visit to Russia at the end of May 2002. The party hopes to play a key role in attempts to resolve the Chechen problem, with the objective of setting the stage for Dugin's dream of a Russianstrategic alliance with European and Middle Eastern states, primarily Iran.
Platform
The Eurasia Party is based around the following five principles:
It is a geopolitical party of the s of Russia and of the statists.
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 other ones—can find a way to express their political and cultural aspirations.
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.
From the cultural, social and political points of view, Europe is close to the United States, but its geopolitical, geostrategic and economic concerns are on the contrary close to Russia-Eurasia.
Domestic policy
With respect to Russia's domestic policies, the Eurasia Party intends to:
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.
