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Eurasian Youth Union (Template:Lang-ru; ESM) is the Russian political organisation, the youth wing of the Eurasia Party headed by Alexander Dugin. The organisation has branches in several countries. The ESM has been branded by some as an extremist organisation, accused of a string of vandalism offences and is banned in Ukraine.

Ideology

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.

Russian traditional Eurasianism and its modern equivalent Neo-Eurasianism developed by Alexander Dugin has been declared the main ideology of the organization. Its ideology also feautures prominently Russian nationalism and imperialism, calls for the creation of a new Eurasian empire centered around Russia. However, 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 former 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.

Activities

Within Russia the Eurasian Youth Union has allied itself with Russian extreme right organizations like, the National Bolshevik Party, the DPNI and other neo-nazi groups. It organizes and takes part in the annual right wing Russian Marches in Russia and other countries of Eastern Europe. Very often these marches are accompanied by violence, especially in Ukraine.

The ESM took an uncompromising approach to everything that happened in Ukraine afer the Orange Revolution in 2004. In particular it set up branches in several Ukrainian cities, voiced its sharp criticism of the pro-Western Ukrainian government. In particular the ESM has been behind a string of attacks on property and organizations they deemed pro-Western. It organised attacks on Ukrainian Security Services brahces thoughout the country, monuments to UPA veterans and hacker attacks on the website of the President of Ukraine. The most prominent of these attacks, that received nation-wide attention was the desecration of Ukrainian state symbols on Mount Hoverla in October of 2007. The other attack on Ukrainian targets was in Moscow, where several of ESM members trashed an exhibition devoted to Holodomor. Due to the relatively high profile of these attacks the Ukrainian police asked for assistance from Russia in apprehending people responsible for them, however, as of yet no suspects have been aprehended.

The organization's vandalism and sharp anti-Ukrainian stance received wide condemnation among Ukrainian public; several threats were made against the organization and its members and a vandalism attack has been reciprocated on the ESM's offices in Moscow. By the decision of the courts the Eurasian Youth Organization has been banned in Ukraine, its leaders Dugin and Zarifullin declared personae non grata.

See also

• Neo-Eurasianism
• Eurasia Party
• National Bolshevik Party
• Alexander Dugin

References

1. Annual report on antisemetism and racism. The Tel-Aviv university. Retrieved July 4, 2008
2. Zerkalo Nedeli The new Ukrainian Oprichnina Retrieved July 4, 2008 (Ukrainian)
3. Program of the Eurasian Youth Movement Our Enemy.
4. Zerkalo Nedeli The Neo-Eurasianism. Question of Russian fascism and Russian political discourse. Retrieved July 4, 2008 (Ukrainian)
5. Party for Protection of Russian Constitution "RUS" Russian Right-Wing March - 2005. The way it was Retrieved July 4, 2008 (Russian)
6. Novynar ESM destroyed Ukrainian symbols on Hoverla
7. Pravda Ukrainy After Hoverla ESM destroyed a Holodomor exhibition
8. Novinar SBU singled out people responsible for Hoveral attack
9. Pravda Ukrainy Ukrainian nationalists attacked the ESM HQ