The Kremlin created the Club of Political Sciences Eurasia

Right -conservative political scientists, with the support of the authorities, established the "Izborsk club" of supporters of Eurasianism. According to Rosbalt, the club’s constituent meeting was held on Saturday in Pskov as part of the celebration of the 1150th anniversary of Izborsk. At the meeting in the Pskov Kremlin, the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky and the Governor of the Pskov region Andrei Turchak performed. The club included political scientists and publicists Alexander Prokhanov, Alexander Dugin, Maxim Kalashnikov, Leonid Ivashov, Mikhail Delyagin and others.

“The club should become a place where people who love Russia would work together, look for general ways and determine where we move on,” Medinsky said. “They hate Russia the same way, but everyone loves it in their own way. Let's look for points of contact in the framework of this site.” "This land is sacred. It was the outpost of Russia and gave rise to many outstanding minds that forever determined the ideology of our country. What is the contribution of the monk Filofei," the Minister of Culture said.

Turchak, in turn, expressed the hope that "the expert community will be able to find answers to the incoming" swamp provocations and other challenges. " The governor believes that the "Izborsky Club" can develop into a "movement that responds not to current challenges, but working in constant interaction with the authorities." “We need such an intellectual support,” said Turchak.

The creators of the club see their mission both in ideological developments and in the "information and semantic support for the construction of the Eurasian Union, other state projects," they explained to Rosbalt. As stated in the club’s declaration, its main task is to “develop conservative patriotic Eurasian models for the presidential administration.” It was the Presidential Administration that was the initiator of the creation of a new association, said Valery Korovin, Deputy Dugin at the Center for Conservative Studies about the social faculty of Moscow State University.

The Kremlin explained that the new association is assigned the same role as the long -existing Valdai club, which is considered liberal. “We cannot ignore any of the sectors of the expert community and work with everyone,” a source in the presidential administration said.