Eurasian Youth Union Евразийский союз молодёжи | |
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| Abbreviation | ESM (English) ЕСМ (Russian) |
| Leader | Aleksandr Dugin |
| Chairperson | Pavel Kanishchev Alexander Bovdunov |
| Founded | 26 February 2005; 20 years ago (2005-02-26) |
| Headquarters | 7th Building,Tverskaya Street,Moscow,Russia. 125375 |
| Newspaper | Eurasian Invasion |
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| Political position | Far-right |
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| National affiliation | Eurasia Party |
| International affiliation | International Eurasian Movement |
| Colors | Black Gold |
| Slogan | "Glory to the Empire! Russian, get up!" (Russian:«Слава Империи! Русский, вставай!») |
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TheEurasian Youth Union (ESM;Russian:Евразийский союз молодёжи; ЕСМ;Yevraziyskiy soyuz molodozhi,YeSM) is a RussianEurasianistpolitical organization,[1] theyouth wing of theEurasia Party headed byAleksandr Dugin. The organization has branches in several countries. In 2011, theGovernment of Ukraine has branded the ESM as an extremist anti-Ukrainian organization, convicted of a string ofvandalism offenses and banned it inUkraine.[2]
According to some observers, the ESM was created as a reaction to theOrange Revolution in Ukraine and the role the younger generation played in it. It is suggested that ESM represents an opposition to a Ukrainian youth organizationPORA.[3]
The early-20th centuryEurasianist ideology of a part of the Russian emigration and modernneo-Eurasianism developed byAleksandr Dugin has been declared the main ideology of the organization.[4] 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":
Our Union has one absolute enemy. It is the USA. This is the beginning and the end of our hatred.[5]
In its internal policy, the ESM supports the current government of Russia and in particular its PresidentVladimir Putin. Some also claim that the movement receives tacit support from the Russian government eager to see a movement opposed to a possibility of an Orange Revolution happening in Russia.[6]
In Russia, the ESM has allied itself with organizations like theNational Bolshevik Front,[7] and other groups of that type. It organizes and takes part in the annualRussian marches in Russia and other countries ofEastern Europe. Very often these marches are accompanied by violence, especially in Ukraine.[8]
After Ukraine's Orange Revolution in 2004, the ESM set up branches in several Ukrainian cities and voiced its sharp criticism of the pro-Western Ukrainian government. The ECM was responsible for a string of attacks on property and organizations they deemed pro-Western. It organised attacks on severalUkrainian Security Service branches, monuments toUkrainian Insurgent Army veterans andhacker attacks on the website of thePresident of Ukraine. The most prominent of these attacks that received nationwide attention was the desecration of Ukrainian state symbols on MountHoverla in October 2007.[9][10] The other attack on Ukrainian targets was in Moscow, where several ESM members trashed an exhibition devoted to theHolodomor (1932–1933).[11] Due to the relatively high profile of these attacks the Ukrainian police asked for assistance from Russia in finding people responsible for them, but no suspects have been apprehended yet.
The organization's vandalism and sharp anti-governmental stance received wide condemnation among Ukrainian media and provoked a response from different Ukrainian organizations of the opposite orientation. Several threats were made against the organization and its members and an arson attack was reciprocated on the ESM's offices inMoscow.
In 2011, a Ukrainian court banned the ESM and its leaders Dugin and Zarifullin were declaredpersonae non grata.[12] In June 2015, Canada added the organization to its list ofsanctioned entities.[13]
The "Sova Center" in its classification classifies the ESM as the “ideological neighbors” of radicalRussian nationalists.[14] At the same time, Eurasians claim[15] that theSova Center cannot objectively evaluate the patriotic organizations ofRussia, since it is funded from theUnited States.[16]
Some Russian[17][18] and Ukrainian[19][20] media outlets, theAssociation of Jewish Organizations and Communities ofUkraine,[21]Kharkiv Human Rights Group,[22]Galina Kozhevnikova[23] and Tatyana Stanovskaya[24] consider the ESM aradical organization.
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