Izborsk Club

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The Isborsk Club ( Russian Изборский Клуб , also Isborskij Klub or Isborsky Club , English Izborsk Club ) is a think tank founded by the publicist Alexander Prokhanov in September 2012 , to which several well-known nationalist and traditionalist intellectuals of Russia belong.

Surname

The club was named after the town of Isborsk in Pskov Oblast near the Estonian border, where the first meeting took place. This designation was based on the established Valdai Club , which Prokhanov also belongs to. Further meetings took place in St. Petersburg , Khimki , Yekaterinburg and Ulyanovsk , among others .

Members

The members of the Izborsk Club include well-known anti-Western and anti-modern intellectuals. Prokhanov's deputies are Vitaly Averianov and Alexander Nagornyj, the chairmen of the Institute of Dynamic Conservatism , which is close to the Russian Orthodox Church. Russian Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky was present at the founding meeting.

The membership of Putin adviser Sergei Glazyev , who was placed on an EU sanctions list in April 2014, and the Alexander Dugins , who attracted attention with radical theses on the Ukraine conflict, attracted public attention . TV presenters Michail Leontjew and Maxim Shevchenko also shape the image of the Izborsk Club in the Russian public .

According to Dugin, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin is also a member of the think tank, even if his name does not appear on official lists. Other members include a. Leonid Iwaschow , Natalija Narotschnizkaja and Maxim Kalaschnikow , Nikolai Starikow , Iwan Ochlobystin etc.

influence

The association appears to be well financed and has ties to the Kremlin , where Dmitry Rogozin often repeats the arguments of the Izborsk Club in public statements, as does the All-Russian National Front . However, the actual impact is controversial. The club represents a political camp that is active behind the scenes of the Moscow establishment, but also has influential rivals there.

The club is useful to the Kremlin, argues British historian Mark Galeotti : "Once you have a crowd of yapping right-wing extremists ... you look moderate yourself."

When Vitaly Averianov, one of the leading figures, was asked in an interview in early July 2014 about the club's influence on pro-Russian fighters in eastern Ukraine, he admitted that there was a “deep connection”.

Positions

The members speak out unanimously against individualism and instead call for collectivism . Western values ​​are seen as harmful influences, against which only a strong Russia oriented towards expansion can help. The aim is to establish a Eurasian Empire.

A manifesto published by the Izborsk Club in January 2013 calls for the accelerated development of the military-industrial complex , the establishment of the public sector as the center of the national economy and a "spiritual renewal" of the Russian elite . The basis is the idea that the geopolitical conflicts over the control of resources will intensify in the near future, which will lead to regional crises as well as wars and armed interventions in numerous countries, especially those rich in natural resources. Peter the Great and Joseph Stalin are named as possible historical models for today's politics .

At a meeting in St. Petersburg on June 19, 2014, Vitaly Averianov demanded that Russia's elite must “renew” and overcome ethnic differences as well as individualistic ways of thinking so that the country could once again become an imperial power. Other speakers expressed similar goals. The publicist Nikolai Starikow called for an ideal restoration of the Russian Empire and described the Eurasian Economic Union as a step in this direction. In his speech, Valeri Korovin contrasted the western “sea powers”, who had enslaved their colonies, with the Russian “land power” that brought culture, knowledge and prosperity to their border regions.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Andreas Umland: Analysis: New right-wing extremist intellectual circles in Putin's Russia: the Anti-Orange Committee, the Isborsk Club and the Florian Geyer Club , Federal Center for Political Education. May 3, 2013. Retrieved October 10, 2014. 
  2. ^ Paul Goble: Is the Izborsky Club Losing Its Clout? . July 7, 2014. Retrieved October 9, 2014. 
  3. ↑ a b Paul Goble: Izborsky Club Leader Calls for 'Renewal' of Russia Elite to Build Empire , Interpreter Mag. June 24, 2014. Accessed October 9, 2014. 
  4. ↑ a b c Analysis: The Isborsk Club - Russia's Anti-Western Ideologists , Federal Agency for Civic Education. March 17, 2015. Retrieved July 29, 2015. 
  5. ^ The Moscow Connection of the "Donetsk People's Republic" , Tyrolean daily newspaper. May 12, 2014. Retrieved March 4, 2020. 
  6. ↑ Julia Smirnova: The courtiers of the tsar , The world. July 28, 14. Retrieved October 10, 2014. 
  7. ↑ Marius Laurinavicius: Dmitry Rogozin's clan: Visionaries and executors behind aggression towards Ukraine , Delfi. August 19, 14. Retrieved October 10, 2014. 
  8. ↑ http://www.izborsk-club.ru/content/articles/980/
  9. ↑ http://www.izborsk-club.ru/content/articles/4248/
  10. ^ A b Andrei Yakovlev: Russian modernization: Between the need for new players and the fear of losing control of rent sources. In: Journal of Eurasian Studies . Volume 5, number 1, 2014, pp. 10-20, doi : 10.1016 / j.euras.2013.09.004 . ( free full text )
  11. ↑ a b Jens Berger: Separatists in Eastern Ukraine - the ghosts we called , Nachdenkseiten.de. July 14, 2014. Retrieved October 10, 2014. 
  12. ↑ Natasha Bluth: The Club That Wants Russia To Take Over The World. In: https://codastory.com . February 8, 2018, accessed February 8, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Paul A. Goble: Russian nationalist group connected to Strelkov, says “Ukraine is not a state” , Euromaidan Press. July 8, 14. Retrieved October 12, 2014. 
  14. ↑ Dmitry Shlapentokh: Kyrgyzstan flirts with Russian ambitions , Asia Times. October 10, 2012. Retrieved October 10, 2014. 
  15. ↑ Susanne Oxenstierna (ed.): The Challenges for Russia's Politicized Economic System , Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series, Verlag Routledge, 2015 ISBN 9781317634218 , page 71

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