Eurasian Youth Union
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Eurasian Youth Union
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| Founded | February 26, 2005 |
| Headquarters | Moscow, Russia |
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Eurasianism, National Bolshevism, Third Positionism, Anti-Americanism, Fascism |
| International affiliation | unknown |
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| http://www.rossia3.ru/ | |
The Eurasian Youth Union (Russian: Евразийский союз молодёжи; ЕСМ / ESM) is a Russian traditionalist-European political organization, the youth wing of the Eurasia Party headed by Aleksandr Dugin. The organization has branches in several countries. The Government of Ukraine has branded the ESM as an extremist, anti-Ukrainian organization, convicted of a string of vandalism offenses and banned it in Ukraine.
According to some observers the Eurasian Youth Union was created as a reaction to the Orange Revolution in Ukraine and the role the younger generation played in it. It is suggested that ESM represents an opposition to a Ukrainian youth organization PORA.
The early-20th century Eurasianist ideology of a part of the Russian emigration and modern Neo-Eurasianism developed by Aleksandr Dugin has been declared the main ideology of the organization. Its ideology also features prominently Russian nationalism and imperialism, calls for the creation of a new Eurasian empire centered on Russia. On its website the movement declared the West and in particular the United States as its main opponent and termed it as the "main evil".
In its internal policy the ESM supports the current government of Russia and in particular its President, Vladimir Putin. Some also claim, that the movement receives taciturn support from the Russian Government eager to see a movement opposed to a possibility of an Orange Revolution happening in Russia.
In Russia, the Eurasian Youth Union has allied itself with organizations like the National Bolshevik Front, the DPNI and other groups of that type. It organizes and takes part in the annual Russian Marches in Russia and other countries of Eastern Europe. Very often these marches are accompanied by violence, especially in Ukraine.
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