Russia and the Western Far Right: Tango Noir, Anton Shekhovtsov

Full interview with Dr. Anton Shekhovtsov on his book "Russia and the Western Far Right: Tango Noir". Dr. Shekhovtsov is a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, Austria, 20 September 2017.

- Relations between Russia and far right movements in the West: European Union, Canada, and the United States; Радикальный национализм в России, Расизм в России, Неонацизм
- 1:56 Far right is an umbrella term for various ideologies, political ideologies that are to the right of centre
- 2:38 Dutch scholar Cas Mudde, authoritarian sentiments, nativism, populism, language that divides people into common people and elites
- 5:43 United Russia (Единая Россия) ruling political party of the Russian Federation
- 7:05 Putin doesn't like the Russian people. If you looked at how people live in the small towns and villages in Russia you would not say Putin that likes his own citizens.
- 7:36 Two types of Russian far right: (1) ethno-nationalists who want only a Russian nation state, smaller than the current Russian state but integrated with the west, (2) imperialist far-right happy with acquiring new territories, Ukraine and Belarus should be re-integrated into Russian empire
- 9:10 «Хватит кормить Кавказ»
- 9:55 First groups who volunteered to go to Crimea and Eastern Ukraine, Donbas, were Russian imperial nationalists, extremely ideological, and included people from Eurasian Youth Union (Евразийский союз молодёжи) organization and Russian National Unity (Русское Национальное Единство), a neo-nazi political party and paramilitary organization
- 10:38 Important role in posing as pro-Russian Ukrainian militias self-defence groups; Russian leadership did not stop these groups from going to Ukraine
- 11:57 12:09 Private military companies, mercenaries, volunteers, etc. invaded Ukraine using Russian regular army forces when needed; Battle of Ilovaisk
- 17:01 European Union Austrian politician, Jörg Haider, received funding from Saddam Hussein to lobby for dropping EU sanctions against Iraq. He also served as an election observer during the illegal Crimean referendum in Ukraine
- 19:03 Principles of Russian nationalism, far right include Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Aleksandr Dugin, Sergey Glazyev (Владимир Жириновский, Александр Дугин, Сергей Глазьев)
- 20:05 Night Wolves (Ночные Волки) motorcycle club sponsored by the Kremlin
- 21:22 Russian neo-Nazis, extreme far right groups jailed
- 23:50 Far right parties manipulated since the end of World War Two; Svoboda Party in Ukraine (Всеукраїнське об’єднання «Свобода») manipulated by Yanukovych regime

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[canteluna]

Very informative and interesting. Mr. Shekhovtsov mentioned that he would not include Russia in the category of nationalist countries on the criterion that Putin's administration does not apparently like the Russian people as evidenced by Putin's treatment of many Russians. Okay, but is that really the defining criterion of nationalism? Putin may very well hold most of humanity in contempt, including his fellow Russians, but does he employ nationalist rhetoric to whip up support? Do the nationalists in Russia support Putin? Did Hitler and Mussolini really "like" their own people? It seems to me that while they used nationalist rhetoric, the people were just a means to an end by these nationalist leaders as they often are.

[kvonribbenburg]

I wonder: Is Dugin still not influential in the Kremlin, or has anything changed there?