Eurasian Observatory for Democracy and Elections (EODE) is a Russia-based
Eurasianist non-governmental organization
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which on its website claims that it monitors elections.
According to its website, it specializes in the "self-proclaimed republics" (
Abkhazia
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,
Transnistria
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,
Nagorno-Karabakh
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).
It is led by the
Belgian activist
Luc Michel and Jean-Pierre Vandersmissen. Both Michel and Vandermissen are followers of the Belgian
Neo-Nazi
Neo-Nazism comprises the post–World War II militant, social, and political movements that seek to revive and reinstate Nazism, Nazi ideology. Neo-Nazis employ their ideology to promote hatred and Supremacism#Racial, racial supremacy (ofte ...
politician
Jean-François Thiriart.
Oliver Bullough, writing for ''
The New Republic
''The New Republic'' (often abbreviated as ''TNR'') is an American magazine focused on domestic politics, news, culture, and the arts from a left-wing perspective. It publishes ten print magazines a year and a daily online platform. ''The New Y ...
'', reported in 2014 that the organization stated on its website that it shared the values of "the current Russian leadership and
V. V. Putin."
The organization states that is committed to a multi-polar world and is critical of what it sees as a unipolar world dominated in the twenty-first century by the United States and NATO. It is opposed to the imposition of western values and the identification of the western-style parliamentary system of democracy as a universal norm not open to criticism.
EODE visited Crimea during the
2014 Crimean referendum
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and claimed that the referendum was conducted in a legitimate manner.
The organization has offices in Moscow, Paris, Brussels, Sochi and
Chișinău
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.
External links
EODE website
References
Election and voting-related organizations
Eurasianism
Political organizations based in Russia
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