Anton Shekhovtsov: Russia and the Western Far Right

The lecture discusses relations between various Russian actors (activists, politicians, organizations, media, officials, etc.) and the Western far right. It provides a historical perspective, discussing the pro-Soviet or pro-Russian views of particular Western far right activists, but its major focus is contemporary Russia. As Moscow has become more anti-Western, contacts with the Western far right have become more intense and have operated at a high level. The lecture shows that the Russian establishment was first interested in using the Western far right to legitimise Moscow’s politics and actions both domestically and internationally, but more recently Moscow has begun to support particular far right political forces to gain leverage on European politics and undermine the liberal-democratic consensus in the West.

Anton Shekhovtsov is a Fellow at the Legatum Institute in London. At the time of the event he was a Visiting Fellow of the program Ukraine in European Dialogue at the IWM.

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