On April
21 in Moscow the Constituent congress of the new
all-Russian political social movement "Eurasia" was
held. According to its leader Aleksandr
Dugin, the initial goal of the movement is to
act at the level of world-view - spreading the eurasist
ideas in the society. The treatment of the initiative by
the media widely varied.
It is
usually very convenient to analyze the press, skipping
the reports from the information agencies. There the
reporters write down what comes quicker, and immediately
pass over what they have written down. So texts from
different agencies are almost identical to each other.
While the press, appearing the next day or on Monday or
Tuesday (if the events happened on a holiday), will
already give a spectrum of the differing
perceptions of the fact.
In the
case about Dugin, the differences began already at the
level of agencies. Actually, only RIA
Novosti and ITAR-TASS
reported about the "eurasists" in the same day of their
congress .
Here is how TASS told this
story:
MOSCOW, April 21. /Corr. ITAR-TASS Elena
Dorofeeva /. The creation of the new all-Russian
political social movement " Eurasia " was
announced at a press conference by its leader, the
philosopher Aleksandr Dugin. The constituent congress
will be held in Moscow on April
21. According to Aleksandr Dugin the initial aim of
the movement is to act at the level of world-view:
to spread the eurasists idea in the society. " If we
should, eventually, take part in the elections of
2003, we will not act as a separate organization, but in
a bloc with pro-presidential forces ", - said
Aleksandr Dugin. In the opinion of the leader of the movement, "
eurasism is that national idea which corresponds to
the interests of all ethnoses, cultures and peoples of
Russia ". Equally unacceptable was called by Dugin
the return to communist and nationalist slogans. The
founding-fathers of the eurasist movement are
considered to be prince Nikolay Trubetskoy and
the philosopher Lev Gumilev. As to the sympathies
of movement in the sphere of foreign policy, his leader
considers it necessary "to support those forces
which act against the process of "american-way
globalization". Present at the press conference was mufti
Farid Sulman - representing mufti Talgat
Tadzhuddin - who stressed: " the movement
"Eurasia" is our answer to the supporters of satanic
wahabism, which has taken roots all over the
country and even in Moscow
". In the opinion of the representative of the
chassidic leader Berl Lazar,
rabbi Avrom Shmulevic, the principle of
eurasism is the most
rational. According to the chairman of the organizing
committee of "Eurasia" Petr Suslov,
branches of the new organization already exist in 52
regions of the country and gather about two thousand
activists ".
And
here comes RIA Novosti:
" April 21. /Corr. RIA Novosti Arina Dovgan /.
The constituent congress of the new all-Russian
political social movement "Eurasia" was held on Saturday
in Moscow. As the correspondent of RIA Novosti reports,
the organization is headed by Aleksandr Dugin. The
congress was opened by the notes of the Russian national
hymn. The presidium of the congress included
representatives of the Russian Orthodox church, the
mufti of Ingushetia, scientists, veterans from the
special services and the juridical
bodies. As the motto of the movement the participants to
the congress chose the words of Vladimir
Putin : "Russia is an
eurasian country ".
As Dugin remarked, to the creation of the new
movement contributed all those who support the
thesis that " the principle of the eurasian community is
the " blossoming complexity " ". The ideology of
the movement, as he said, " was gained from the best men
of Russia who founded the eurasist world-view, among
them Lev Gumilev ".
The main idea of the hour-long report of
the head of the movement was the thesis that "
Russia and the West represent different
civilizations, the contradictions between them exist for
a very long time and will never disappear, but the
fundamental law of geopolitics is " either us, or
them ", as " there cannot be any merger with the
Western world , and that's why the West turns an evil
look upon us". The meaning of the activity of "Eurasia"
was defined by Dugin as " not to go to power, but to
struggle for influencing it ". In particular, the
movement is going to offer the president of the Russian
Federation a project on the settlement of inter-ethnic
conflicts by " uniting the fundamentalists, that is the
true believers experiencing the uniqueness of their
faith ". As the basic source of all evils Dugin
called " the atlantist factor ". As he
said, there are " factual evidences that CIA
employees work now within the Chechen opposition
". As a conclusion Dugin declared to look with
optimism to the future of the movement "Eurasia". First,
he explained, " with the coming of Putin a sign of
the magic stick turned on the green light to the
development of the eurasist initiative ", secondly,
"Eurasia" is many-dimensional - to it
belong Russians and Tatars, young people and
militaries ", and finally -"Eurasia" first of all,
is here to stay ".
The congress also elected the members of
the Political Council of the movement, approved its
Charter and accepted its resolution
".
The
difference between the two messages is visible enough.
In the ITAR-TASS version "Eurasia" emerges
as a pochvennik,
conciliatory and rather quiet formation. In the
version of RIA Novosti a quite decisive operational
vector is supposed. It will suffice to compare the TASS
version to the words of mufti Salman, that "the
"Movement" Eurasia " is our answer to the supporters of
satanic wahabism, which has taken roots on all
country and even in Moscow "; and the RIA
communicate to the passage about "Eurasia" "
going to offer the president of the Russian Federation a
draft on the settlement of interethnic conflicts by "
uniting the fundamentalists, that is true believers
experiencing the uniqueness of their faith
".
Surely, the newspapers on Monday displayed
an even greater inaccuracy of judgements.
"Nezavisimaya Gazeta" on 24
April, in the person of Grigory Nekhoroshev
("The "Eurasists" decided to lean on Vladimir
Putin ") very stylishly had a good
time:
" The delegates and visitors to the constituent
congress of the All-Russian political social
movement "
Eurasia ", being held on Saturday, were welcomed in the
hall by two huge bands on a green background - "
Russia is an eurasian country. V.V. Putin "
and" Eurasia above all ".
Aleksandr Dugin, philosopher, geopolitician and
advisor of the chairman of the State Duma - so was
stated on all documents - opened the works with a
forty-minutes report. He stated that since the beginning
of reforms in the Russian Federation, unfortunately,
prevailed atlantism, the absolutely unnatural ideology,
hostile to us, of despiritualized and individualistic
americanism. As he said, during the Yeltsin years
some attempts could be seen " to depart from this
disastrous atlantic path ". But " the true victory of
the eurasist idea was the Putin leadership ". " We
totally, radically support the president. Therefore we
are the total, radical centre ", - thus defining the
political collocation of the movement, Dugin also hinted
that the turn towards eurasism in the government's
ideology has taken place with his own close
involvement. Therefore the overall goal of the
movement is to keep proposing new eurasist projects to
the authority. After Dugin, a not much shorter report
was heard from the Supreme mufti of Russia
Sheyk-ul-Islam Talgat Tadzhuddin. He remarked
that for the true muslims of the country the present "
homeland is Rus' ". And all inter-ethnic and
inter-confessional conflicts are arranged by " those who
live on the islands. There is always something that is
not good enough for them, and it is necessary to arrange
press campaigns and something more to put an end to it
". However Tadzhuddin remarked under a roaring applause
that " today in England of 50 millions people five
are muslims. Good landing ".
A brief salute to the congress was sent also by
the Highest rabbi of Russian Federation Berl
Lazar. A more significant compliment to the congress
came from the leaders of the Israeli organization " Bead
Artzein ". In their message they said that
americanization and despiritualization - deriving from
the former - stand among the major enemies of Israel.
The leaders of " Bead Artzein " complained that they
could not attend the congress, as Saturday is the holy
day for the jews. Criticism to the address of atlantism
and western humanism was also expressed in the greeting
speech of the representative of the Russian Orthodox
Church, father Vsevolod (Chaplin - SMI.ru),
chairman of the committee on foreign church relations
and secretary of the Russian staroobryad church of the
Ezery. Very originally designed were the programmatic
documents of congress and the digest of works "
Eurasism: theory and practice " - on their title
pages and covers appeared the portrait of the president
of Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and his words: "
the charge which eurasist ideas bear in themselves is
especially relevant today, when we establish genuinely
equalitarian relations among the countries of the
Commonwealth of Independent States". Further
the portraits of Sheyk-ul-islam Talgat Tadzhuddin and
Aleksandr Dugin with their
statements. In the programmatic documents it is affirmed: "
Neo-eurasism had a huge influence on political
parties and movements of modern Russia. In the
programmatic documents of "
Unity ", KPFR, OVR, LDPR, the movement " Russia ",
and many other parties and movements there are
significant eurasist elements ". There is a grain of
truth in it. The leader of "Eurasia" Aleksandr Dugin has
gone a long way: from the circle of the so-called sexual
mystic Yuri Mamleev, through Dmitri
Vasilev's "Pamyat",
to the direction of the National-bolshevik party (NBP)
of Eduard Limonov, to advisor of the State Duma.
Some time ago he was member of the political council of
the organizational congress of the movement "Russia"
under the direction of Gennady Seleznev. He
prepared for "Russia" the constituent documents, but at
the last moment did not take part in the management of
the movement. Dugin also participated in the
creation of "Unity". With the help of the original NBP
organizations in the places where they had quit Limonov
together with him. Some original members of the NBP have now become
representatives of "Eurasia". In total "Eurasia" has 51
offices. The leaders of the sections were
also the delegates to the constituent congress.
The most young representative - Igor
Nikolaev from the Republic of Sakha-Yakutia -
read to the congress a report made, as he said, "
at a school scientific -practical conference " about how
he understands eurasism: " Individualism,
independence of the judgments are the features of
Europe, but not for us! Love for the parents, obeyance
are the features of Russian people ". The
representative from Chelyabinsk Mr. Palkin
stated that his region is in a way the centre of
eurasism, as in its area the tracks of Zoroaster are
found, and scientists consider that exactly there "
was born Zarathustra ". He remarked that in
the Chelyabinsk university four years ago was opened the
faculty of Eurasia and the East, where the life and
works of Aleksandr Dugin are matter of teaching. " Our
teacher and organizer has a great future ", -
concluded Palkin. The congress unanimously elected
Dugin as the chairman of the political council of the
movement. In it were elected representatives of the
movement of the veterans of subdivision "Alpha" and
chiefs of Moscow "Temp-banka" . The congress passed
then to the club " Honour and dignity ", which is
controlled by the members of "Alpha". In the Central
council were elected representatives of
culture: publicist Avigdor Eskin, writer
Yuri Mamleev, tv journalist Mikhail
Leontyev, Ambassador Plenipotentiary of the Russian
Federation in Uzbekistan Dmitri Ryurikov,
Talgat Tadzhuddin etc. Then a banquet was held.
In the foyer were sold the works of Aleksandr Dugin,
Friedrich Nietzsche's " Thus spoke Zarathustra ", books
by Julius Evola and Ernst Junger ".
"
Komsomolskaya Pravda " (Oleg
Rashlov " In the fight against the enemies -
atlantists - eurasists have risen as one ") of
April 24 too had its fun, but - well, how to say - not
so stylishly, although on full
screen.
" The birth of the next socio-political movement
for Russia is not a rare thing. Especially in spring,
when activity gets tougher. In this sense the
constituent congress of the new movement " Eurasia " was
rather springlike. In a hall, books of Nietzsche, Brzeszinski and
about the history of religion were sold. In the smoking
room a young man, dry as a bogomol, with a Gide-like
beard, excitedly whispered in the ear of a young
stout bloke: -
You need urgently to clean your astral, right
here... The bloke looked around frightened. Were it not
for the envoys of religious confessions - devout muslims
led by sheyk Tadzhuddin, orthodox priests and even one
buddhist with a naked arm, - one might imagine whatever.
In the smoking room, where the delegates chatted, I have
learnt a lot of useful things. For example, that
"Eurasia" is not simply a screen for money-washing, " as
all remaining parties ", but a movement of a new kind
with a very strong world-view basis. The essence of
eurasism was explained to me by a young guy in
boots and kosovorotka, tightened with a
rope. -
Everything is clear, - said he with fervour, adjusting
his glasses with a broken bar, - the West is dangerous
to mankind. And Russia has risen on a traiectory of
blindly copying western values. Now the time has come to
shake off this garbage - either us, or
them! As it appeared, "they" are the atlantists (to
not confuse with sionists). Such, as Kozyrev, "
who surrendered everything possible to
America ", Borovoy, Novodvorskaya,
Kiselev and its NTV-6,
" "which propagandize the western way of life ".
But their time is out. And consequently "Eurasia" led by
its leader will support the power in all. I shyly asked,
who is this courageous man who is not afraid to
challenge the artful atlantists? The guy looked at me,
as being autistic. -
You don't know Dugin? I
felt ashamed. Dugin resulted to be the assistant to duma
speaker Seleznev on geopolitics. For a long time this
mighty mind was the ideologist of popular-patriotic
front. Now Dugin is a radical centrist and supports
Putin. Therefore red banners could not be seen in the
hall. From the speakers kind patriotic songs
reminded that " spetsnaz
is always ready ", and on walls hung simple slogans,
painted on green . For example, " Russia - Euroasian
country (V V. Putin) ". By the way, the quotations of
VVP were literally printed on the programmatic documents
of new movement - had he read them, he would be
surprised. Aleksandr Dugin appeared to be the man
in black, with a rich beard. His speech, opening the
congress, simply swept all around with his intellectual
power. As to me, being far from metaphysics and physics
on the whole, this sentence of the leader was for some
reason remembered: " The domination of atlantist ideas
led to the marginalization of the ideas of the eurasists
". After Dugin a young activist from Tatarstan
spoke, complaining that the ideas of atlantism in his
republic are very strong. Then the congress as died away
- it became clear that the new movement is not crowded
with charismatic leaders.
I was tormented by a question: if the atlantists
are guilty of all Russian misfortunes, how to struggle
against them? In the crowd hastening to the banquet I found my
informator with the broken bar. - There will be no
massacres, - he comforted me passingly, - the atlantists
will die out as a consequence of the eurasist
reforms. As to the banquet, it was not bad: appetizers,
fruits, champagne. According the organizers, the money
to all this eurasism was provided by private sponsors.
Without the latter, we all know, political struggle is
now impossible ".
Two
relatively similar materials, apparently, should fully
assess the trend in the perception of "Eurasia" as such
and of Mr. Dugin in the given historical moment in
particular. But no...
" Moskovsky Komsomolets
" did not report about the congress of
"Eurasia" , but on Tuesday 24 wrote
that:
" The right to change the internal borders,
written in all Constitutions of the USSR - Russian
federation, until now did not find any real
concretization. And at last the Ministry of the
Federation decided to amend this omission. The
bill " About the borders of entities of Russian
Federation and the rules of their revision " is now
being studied by the Ministry of Justice. But instead of
a happy forecast - at last we shall untie all
territorial units - analysts prophesy almost civil
war... "
That
is, a hint just to the fact some of the analysts on the
given issue belong to us. Three were found in the
state:: Ramsan Abdulatipov (chairman of the
Association of the peoples of Russia, representative of
the Saratov region in the Council of the Federation),
Konstantin Zatulin (head of Fund for the regional
presidential programs) and - Aleksandr Dugin (defined by
the newspaper as the head of Centre of geopolitical
expertise of the expert-consultative council on
national safety issues). Here is what he
said:
" The concept of "border" is very relevant, and
the inacceptance of the law " About the borders of the
subjects of the Federation " is actually very dangerous.
The now existing borders are very vague, moreover, we do
not have borders coinciding with ethnic divisions, and
this contributes both to weakening the vertical line of
power, and to the rising of separatist and
autonomist tendencies. As far as I know, there are
now some concrete bills " About the borders ". For
example, a project aimed at preserving the number of the
subjects of the Federation; the project of eurasian
federalism, according to which as the subjects of the
Federation should be considered not the territories, but
the peoples. However, for the moment it is difficult
to say which one of the projects will be given
preference in the end ".
So it
is not surprising that " Novye Izvestiya "
(" Natural losses " - " Teleweek with Elena
Katsyuba ") on April 24 considered the
eurasist constituent process much seriously and with
extreme nervousness :
"... Were precisely designated in the past
week also the contours of the new official ideology.
On Saturday, as though passingly, but very significantly
the " Eurasist union " informed about the congress of
the new organization ". Not to forget about geography, I
clarify that " Eurasia " in this case is not the
continent, but actually Russia. For this geopolitical
phenomenon among the people and elsewhere too,
there is an ironical term, which seems to me more
appropriate, - " Asiopa ". At the head of the brand new
union stands some Dugin, respectfully called as
philosopher. Dugin's philosophy is a widely minced
geopolitical meat-loaf in the style of the Third Reich
slightly seasoned by some mossy pan-mongolism. To
add greater weight to the event a sentence by
Putin, extracted from the context of the speech,
appeared on the tv-screen: " the Eurasian space of the
Russian Federation ". And here is the basic idea
expressed from the tribune of the asiopean congress:
Russia stands in the Eurasian space hostile to the West;
the West was, is and will be hostile to Russia,
fecondated by the beneficent coming of Gengis Khan. It
is not a parody from "Smekhopanorama", it is a
self-parody of ideology by new fangled politicians
(or of politics by ideologists). Another thesis sounded
even more ridiculous, that thanks to Gengis Khan
in Russia was spread a fruitful muslim influence. But
Gengis Khan never professed Islam. His beliefs and moral
code did not envision any other virtues, except for
universal compulsory military service and bestial
cruelty in relation to the
defeated. ... How far is the power ready to go in the
infringement of our rights and freedom? As far as we
allow. That is indefinitely. We alarmedly watch the TV,
and the power attentively watches our reaction to its
ideological occupation. They dissolved NTV - 56 % are
"for". They dissolved "Segodnya"
- nothing happened. They devoured "Itogi"
- everything quiet. The power is sure that the less the
existing freedom, the more vertical will be the line of
power. That may be so, but such method is similar to a
systemic application of heavy narcotics - at first
cocain, then heroin, and then to the cemetery, to the
garbage heap of history.
The present period of Soviet "break-up" covers a
decade. The joke says that without freedom we lived one
thousand years, and with freedom only ten. The power and
the people are pulling to narcotic illiberty...
"
There
is still " Vremya novostey " ("
Geopolitics for the president ", Mariya
Nikiforova), on Monday 23, but it is boring enough
overall, with the sole novelty about
Brunei:
" The camp of the supporters of the president
has been replenished with the movement " Eurasia " led
by geopolitician Aleksandr Dugin. Speaking at the
constituent congress of the organization, Mr. Dugin
stated that " the movement is formed in support to
presidential reforms, but in a non-conformist, creative
way "." We see ourselves as radical centre, because we
act for total support to the president, as against all
those centrist organizations which criticize him even
more ", - Mr. Dugin stressed.
The necessity of creating the movement,
according to Mr.Dugin's words, stems from the fact that
Russia "
in the given historical moment has its own special path,
in many respects founded on eurasist values ". All the
more so, since the present government of the country, as
he said, " at the waving of the magic stick
step-by-step moves on to eurasist positions ". "
With the coming of Putin there occurs a new landmark,
the president in Brunei
stated that Russia is an eurasian country, and even if
the president did not develop this concept, we realize
what all this means ", - Mr. Dugin
reported. For the president too to understand, "what it
means", the movement "Eurasia" is going first of all "
to influence the power ". As Mr. Dugin said, "we must
delegate to the president, to this fatal event
represented by Putin, our own operatings"
".
Just
in the aftermath of the initiative, on Saturday 21, the
reporting about the congress was realized by
NTV (in the program
"Today"):
Speaker:... Today in Moscow the
new socio-political movement "Eurasia" expressed its
support to the president. It is curious, that its leader
not much time ago was the major ideologist of the
radical national-bolshevist party. The reporting by
Anton Grushin. Correspondent.: Today Vladimir
Putin has found a new ally. After the pro-presidential
"Unity", the decision to openly back the Kremlin was
stated by "Eurasia". The new socio-political movement
does not put before itself local tasks. As its leader -
the philosopher Aleksandr Dugin - says, "Eurasia"
will deal exclusively with world-views, that is to
spread the eurasist ideas on all
Russia. Dugin: The main principle of
eurasist philosophy is the blossoming complexity. The
blossoming of Rus' came in that moment, when this
complex and autonomous ethno-cultural ensemble of Rus'
was joined by most powerful civilization impulse
of the Tatars. Here is the foundation of the eurasist
philosophy, that the Russians are not, say, an ethnic
and racial community having some kind of, so to speak,
monopoly of statehood.
Corr.: The founders - Centre of
geopolitical expertises and the social fund
"Unification" - deal with contributing to the peace and
co-operation in the Caucasus. The new pro-presidential
ideology should be simple and clear - the major slogan
of the congress is " Eurasia above all ". The leaders
profess ideas of centrism and derzhavism
and declare that the West will not help us, as everyone
should understand. Dugin: Our concept of national
safety is already included in the basic principle of
eurasism. Corr.: Muslim representatives at
the congress especially remarked that " the creation of
"Eurasia" is our answer to the supporters of satanic
wahabism, which has taken roots all over the country and
even in Moscow " (end of the quotation). "Eurasia" is
ready to participate to the 2003 elections not as a
separate organization, but in a bloc of pro-presidential
forces ".
Strange correspondent, acting as if he
himself had just left the session. Or simply he has not
yet learned how to ask questions to the
interviewee...
Let's
remind that the quoted newspapers were out on Tuesday -
in other words, the authors of the articles were more
busy on how to describe the score, rather than how to
play it (with the exception of "Novye
Izvestya"). As a matter of fact, the score is really
being played, one more example of this will be given a
little further - now a little more about how to
play the theme as such.
However, there was still an issue on the
eve of the event. Already on April 20, on Friday,
it was made by "Kommersant" (" Eurasia
Uber Alles ", Igor Maltsev):
" Tomorrow in the club " Honour and dignity " is
held the constituent congress of the socio-political
movement " Eurasia ". It becomes the first organization
made out of brain activity by the known Russian
philosopher Aleksandr Dugin.
About the eurasist offensive a press conference
was held in the reunion hall of RIA Novosti.
Besides Aleksandr Gelevic Dugin himself there were
present rabbi Avraam Schmulevic, the mufti from
Tatarstan Farid Hzrat Salman and former military
Petr Suslov. The manifest of the new movement is
modest: " Eurasia above all ". To the question
about what is Eurasia above, the founding-father Dugin
briefly answered: " Above unipolar globalization, the
concerns of the different peoples, the concerns of
Islam, the private interests of the minute people and
above class and social categories. That is Eurasia
should be a common measure, not subject to doubt ".
It was necessary to agree, since it is impossible to
doubt. In a programmatic text, prepared for the
journalists, Aleksandr Dugin often repeated the formula
"our-president-Vladimir-Vladimirovic-Putin" and
expressed hope that Russian national idea at last is
revealed: it consists in eurasism. Because the
liberal-democratic alternative of development in Russia
all the same has not taken roots and even became the
reason of many misfortunes. Eurasism, as it follows from
the programmatic documents of "Eurasia", considers as
the global enemy the US with their American way of
life. America imposes to us a " neon-light
disintegrating ", and to this we must resolutely say
"no". It is clear why good roads, clean toilets and the
best cinema in the world are in contrast to bad roads,
dirty toilets and dying cinema. Only it is not clear,
why Eurasia should use the second
set. "
They want to erase all the differences between the
peoples and cultures, leaving only decorative signs. It
is a giant experiment on cultivation of the new man.
Eurasism means the coexistence of various cultures and
religions without the well-known melting pot ".
The major charge to americanism and globalism is
such. That is, the multi-cultural America with its
peaceful co-existence of religions and cultures is but
the invention, let's admit it, of the writer
Pelevin. And eurasism as the idea of Sacred Rus'
(the former idea of Great Russia) all the same will
triumph, in spite of the intrigues of internal enemies -
Yavlinsky, former NTV and other wahabites, to
which musims and jews invited in "Eurasia" do not have
good relations. " The idea of eurasism is now rapidly
spreading in Israel ", - said rabbi Abraham
Shmulevic with confidence, without detailing to what
part of Eurasia this Middle Eastern country
refers. The philosopher Dugin answered a question
about the source of the money for the organization of
the movement: " It is offered by private persons who are
included in our ranks. Though, given the speed at which
the eurasist idea is seizing a mass of regional
businessmen, soon all financial questions will be over".
Fifty-two regional organizations have already been
created, and by Saturday they might become 56. The
founders affirm that, despite of such public appeal, the
movement does not plan yet to participate to elections.
As well as the philosopher Dugin, the movement created
by him is quite satisfied with the role of an
ideological reserve for the power. And in the long term
- its new ideological department
".
So,
here's the play around the theme... The Dugin
case is almost laboratory. In the informational
space - well, let's call it this way - an essentially
new concept is thrown (in this case, the previous
history of Dugin and the same eurasists - as
emigrants, to kill whom GPU was necessary , - we
shall leave this aside, this history will be hardly
claimed by the present political field, and in itself
such evaluation is more provocative than
adequate). Accordingly, the new concept can be
interpreted by everyone, as he pleases, according to its
own purposes. Certainly, this history can be played
differently, but - in case Dugin played his own game
(and would't he wish to be the Major Ideologist in
a country where " Love to the parents, obeyance are
features of the Russian people " ?) - so you
see, they too can play different
tunes.
And
they already have. "NG-religion" [Nezavisimaya
Gazeta], asks " Does the patriarchy support radical
sionism? The constituent congress of new movement "
Eurasia " urges to reflect upon this question
", Maxim Savchenko (the paper edition is
published on Wednesday):
" Among the others, also sounded the
greeting message from the Israeli movement " Bead
Artzein ". Let's remind that it gained notoriety as an
organization invoking total war against Arabs and
muslims in the territory of Palestine. Its members are
so radical by words and deeds, that even the Israeli
justice condemned some of them for the profanation of
muslim sacred places and vandalism against muslim tombs.
The message was signed by the leaders of this radical
nationalist sionist party rabbi Avrom Shmulevic,
the "political emigrant" Avigdor Eskin and the
journalist, editor of the Internet - version of " NG "
Aleksandr Sherman. The movement " Bead Artzein "
was introduced to the congress as one of the major
collaborators of "Eurasia" on the side of judaism and "
Israeli traditionalism ". And here it is high time to put a number of
questions concerning a) the Moscow
patriarchy, b) mufti Talgat
Tadzhuddin, c) the administration of the president of
Russia. It is clear that the idea of the Israeli-Russian
symbiosis, repeatedly echoed in the Russian mass media
by the representatives of radical sionist groups (Eskin,
Shmulevic), finds support among those people who would
like gain the favour of Israeli hawks, destroy the
inter-confessional peace in Russia and cause its clash
with the Islamic world. At the congress they were
represented by ORT conductor Mikhail Leontyev,
who once referring to the "peace process" in the
Near East said: " It is impossible not to understand
where the "peace process" leads to - the Israeli
Khasavyurt,
and why the present ruling regime is so much struggling
for it, almost in a self-denying way. It is so
self-denying, that practically with its own hand it
organized the assassination of the premier Rabin to show
that all opponents of the peace process are scum,
terrorists and zealots " ".
Interesting about Dugin as
such:
" The movement "Eurasia" was created (with
the support of second line political
technicians) by the former co-founder of the
National-bolshevik party, one of the ideologists of
Russian eurasism, singer of the state security services,
author of the textbook " Foundations of Geopolitics "
and divulger of Guénon, Evola and Haushofer - the
politologist Aleksandr Gelevic Dugin. He is the son
of a Cheka cadre, knows various foreign languages and is
personally familiar with many bright figures of the
so-called " Black international
".
In
what consists the problem for Shevchenko?
" The Patriarch often showed support to the
Palestinian government, declaring himself concerned by
the massacre of the Arabs in the cities occupied by
Israel . The Russian Orthodox Church is interested to
maintaining good relations with Arafat and his circles
(in the territory of the Autonomy is located the main
share of its properties). At the same time, official
employees of the Patriarchy (on behalf of igumen
Ekonomtsev acted Valery Shlenov) enter the
leading organs of the movement "Eurasia" together
with people convicted even by the Israeli state
for anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab terrorist
blows. Mufti Talgat Tadzhuddin, attacking
wahabites and radicals, being muslim, also sits in the
presidium of the movement, where there are people that
profanated a muslim relic. Let's remind that the same
Mr.Avigdor Eskin paying hommage to the
congress was convicted by the Israeli court for
instigation to throwing pork heads on territory of
Al-Aqsa mosquee and profanation by pork remnants of the
tomb of a dead fighter of the Palestinian Resistance
movement, which radical-sionists and their friends
in the Russian media call no differently than
"terrorist". Really mufti Tadzhuddin solidarizes so much
with a similar position? Dugin expressed total unconditional support
to president Putin, called the movement as "radical
centre". Moreover, he declared support to the
president even in those areas where his acts may miss
the ideological principles of the
movement. But does Putin, or at least the Russian Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, support a movement whose
activity puts into question the authority of Russia's
involvement in the role of co-sponsor of the peace
process in the Near East? "
It is
interesting that here Shevchenko by default believes
that Putin will accept the support of "Eurasia". And
here is the conclusion:
" I have decided not to go deep into discussing
the concept itself of "eurasism". Lately there has been
(not in the last instance due to Dugin's efforts) a lot
of "theoretical arguing" about it. One can talk about
about a "uniform Tradition ", about the opposition
between "atlantists" and "eurasists", and about a "solar
Euroasian KGB, which will open the dawn of a new aeon"
(as Dugin wrote in "Zavtra").
But to anyone unbiased and familiar with the
history of the USSR it is obvious that this political
doctrine has arisen in the '20s in the heads of then
political intellectuals from GPU as a means of levying
troops among the emigrants' intelligentsia, longing for
the homeland. Say, there is a great country on the great
spaces of Eurasia controlled by the wise leader and
opposing the treacherous Entente. This country "pardoned
and calls". Is it necessary to say that almost all the
founders of "eurasism" were swept away in the camps'
dust? Already then the emigrants who were not trusting
GPU promises said that "eurasism" is
deciphered as "the sense of the historical existence
of naive Asians formulated by the clever Jews
"". Similarly, today's reality confirms the ironical
conclusion of the people living in the '20s
".
That
is, once again sionists are guilty of
everything... Here, certainly, there is a turn: by the
irritated reaction of Shevchenko, the idea, on the
whole, looks promising (otherwise why being so
stirred?), but here comes the
jew...
P.S. As Mr. Sherman,
mentioned in Shevchenko's articles, was once writing for
SMI.ru, I asked him about some details of life mentioned
in the article (about what brought him to
"Eurasia", I even did not start asking - if he wants, he
himself will write). So, concerning " the Israeli
movement " Bead Artzein " ", which, according to
Shevchenko, "gained notoriety as an organization
invoking the total war against the Arabs and the muslims
in the territory of Palestine", it resulted that "
Bead Artzein " (" For the Homeland") never called to war
against Arabs and muslims, and became known due to the
demonstration in defence of Kokonov (a partisan
convicted in Latvia). Actually, there have been no other
actions, though demonstrations of solidarity with the
people of Yugoslavia and TSADAL (army of southern
Lebanon) are promised. As to Eskin, he
faces accusation not of "throwing a pork head",
but of "instigation to arson" (army headquarters of one
Israeli organization, it seems). The charge of
profanation is deleted. The charge of arson was based on
that he "did not prevent, knowing about the intent". The
witness for the prosecution was only one - the
arsonist. But the most
interesting thing that emerged is that Shevchenko
himself was not at the congress... From "NG" - according
to Sherman - there was only the head of NG information
department, but Shevchenko was not there (Sherman would
have noticed him). However, there was the son of
Dzhemal, a friend of his. He probably retold
everything.
That's
all, actually, about the way "the question of
information" is played.
© MASS-MEDIA RU,
2000.
NOTES
Pochvenniki - Reference to a Russian current of
thought of the 1860s advocating the return of the
litterate society towards the people
(pochvy, from pochva = soil, land) in its
religious and ethical sense.
Unity
(Edintsvo) - Political party formed in support of then
acting president V.V.Putin. KPFR – Communist Party of the Russian
Federation. OVR – Otetchestvo-Vsyo Rossya. The party of
Luzhkov and Primakov, now allied to
Edinstvo. LDPR – Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, lead
by Zhirinovsky. Rossiya – Political movement founded by the
speaker of the State Duma, Gennady Seleznev, member of
the KPFR. Pamyat – Patriotic Nationalist right-wing
party. NTV, TV6 – TV networks formerly belonging to the
oligarchs and media-tycoons Gusinsky and
Berezovsky Spetsnaz – Russian special
forces. Segodnya, Itogi – newspapers belonging to the
same groups as NTV and TV6. Together they mostly
represented the pro-american “fifth column” within the
Russian mediatic space. Derzhavism – Policy of state
power. Khazavyurt – The reference is to the peace
accords signed in 1996 between the Russian Federation
and Chechen independentists, generally considered as a
Russian
defeat. |