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Just a month ago, "Russia Today" aired a video of a parade of Golden Dawners in Piraeus under the slogan "Greece belongs to the Greeks" and, last November, during the clash between Moscow and Washington, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs had published a "Report on the situation of human rights in the European Union". It states that "the situation of human rights in Greece is developing increasingly unsatisfactory, mainly due to the deepening economic crisis." The report defines Golden Dawn as a far-right party and presents its growing power and its entry in parliament, adding however that "a decrease of its supporters has been recorded since summer 2013, after the murder of Pavlos Fyssas committed by a Golden Dawn member ".

The publication by "Voice of Russia" on 30 September, shortly after the murder, is impressive. "The recent legal actions against the radical Golden Dawn party and the arrests of its leaders may have played a role in the radicalization of reservists in the army."

"The Russians should come"

The Russian media perceives Golden Dawn as a "radical party" and mentions the reservists whereas a source closely monitoring the actions of Golden Dawn recalls that on 26 October 2012, Kasidiaris had urged, from the parliamentary rostrum, the Russian army to enter Greece to protect the Russian pipelines. According to the same source, it is important that the Russian state news agency had disseminated information about the arrest of "radical politicians" in relation to the detention of Nikolaos Michaloliakos.

In their publications, Golden Dawners emphasize that "the Russians see in Golden Dawn a Greek political party with a national orientation, which fights to protect the interests of the Greek people and land. Therefore it is logical and expected that the domestic servants of American centrism will be resentful."

Last December, Golden Dawn deputy and Michaloliakos’ protégé Artemis Mateopoulos participated in a far-right European "festival" in Moscow where Russian nationalists commanded the parade. There, in the presence of leading figures from the British Nationalist Party BNP, the Italian Forza Nuova and Golden Dawn, the "cream" of the far right and fascist parties in Europe, he spoke about strengthening the ties between Greece and Russia.

Findings of Foreign Affairs

Moscow's relations with Golden Dawn and with other far-right formations have been revealed by the prestigious American Foreign Affairs magazine, which is considered "the bible" of diplomacy and is issued by the American Council on Foreign Relations. It presents a very interesting analysis by Michell Orenstein, a professor of political science at Northeastern University and Harvard associate.

In his analysis, Orenstein stresses that "Golden Dawn has never concealed its close ties with the extreme right wing in Russia and it is believed that the party receives capital from Russia. A website relating to Golden Dawn states that Nikolaos Michaloliakos had received a letter in prison from university teacher at Moscow State University and former Kremlin adviser Alexander Dugin, one of the founders of Putin’s ideology of the Eurasian Union".

According to Orenstein, Dugin, who had met with leader of the Hungarian far-right party Jobbik, expresses in his letter support for the geopolitical positions of Golden Dawn and his desire to open a communication channel between Michaloliakos’ party and the source of his thoughts in Moscow. He adds that the nationalist parties will win a large percentage during the European elections and that they have the support of Putin, specifying that leaders of far-right parties such as Marine Le Pen had visited Moscow in June 2013 at the invitation of Chairman of the State Duma Sergei Naryshkin who is a close aide to the Russian President.

"Putin’s challenge to Europe should be taken into account" Dugin notes, stressing how the European elections "could weaken the European Union and bring the far right friends of Russia closer to power." According to him, the relationship of Russian circles with Golden Dawn is maintained within the context of this strategy.

Alexander Dugin

Putin’s guru and the connection with Golden Dawn

Alexander Dugin was born in 1962 and is considered to be one of the best known political commentators and writers of post-Soviet Russia.

Alexander Dugin, Photo: nreporter.info

Dugin has been an adviser to Putin for a decade, he is the theorist and inspirer of the so-called fourth political theory and his views influence the power in the Kremlin. Michaloliakos quoted his name in his articles.

Recently, the Golden Dawn leader has stated in an article on the crisis in Ukraine entitled "Crimea, Moscow and Greece" that this is "a revolution that has not come to restore justice in a rotten regime but to destroy Moscow's relations with Europe, to suspend Russia's geopolitical expansion, which is reflected in Alexander Dugin’s theory of Eurasia."

Dugin participated in the nationalist opposition to Boris Yeltsin and, at various points, worked with different movements, both left- and right-winged, such as the national bolshevist movement of Edward Limonov and communist Gennady Zyuganov.