The II General Congress of the International Russophile Movement was held in Moscow. A “Multipolar World Forum” was held on Monday, February 26, and congress elections were held on Tuesday, February 27.
The Congress was held under the auspices of the Kremlin Administration of the President of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
The International Russophile Movement, united against the global isolationist move launched by the US and EU-based Western governments against Russia after the Special Military Operation launched in Ukraine in February 2022, called for the promotion of the idea of a Multipolar World in the current order.
As the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has pointed out, Russia has many Russophile friends all over the world, including in the US and the EU, who are genuine and have a heartfelt attachment to the Russian people. So this is a movement that offers a constructive alternative to the sanctions that are unfairly imposed in the world and aims to build peace. -Sergey Lavrov, Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation
More than 350 representatives from 130 countries in Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas attended the event. In addition to Ünver Sel and İlber Vasfi Sel, who were delegates at the congress and are also founding members of the movement and congress delegates; Prof. Dr. Giray Saynur Derman, Attorney Sadık Hüdai Ekinci, Businessman Özgür Yanık, Erol Uğurlu, Prof. Dr. Ali Murat Özdemir, Prof. Dr. Erdem İlker Mutlu and Retired Air Staff Colonel İhsan Sefa participated as the Turkish delegation.
Head of the Turkish Delegation Ünver Sel delivered a speech titled “The Turning Point of the Multipolar World Order: Crimea” at the opening session of the congress.
Ünver Sel stated that after the democratic referendum held in the Crimean peninsula in 2014, the people of the region exercised their right to self-determination and the Multipolar World Order started after this election.
Founding Member and Congress Delegate Ilber Vasfi Sel made a presentation on Russia’s and Turkey’s position in the Global South and potential cooperation in the “Global South” session.
Representatives of the movement from all over the world addressed Russia, Russian culture, the peoples of Russia, and the unfair policies of the US and EU-centered West in the international arena. Speaking about the growth of the Global South, the increase in the number of members of the BRICS countries, the growth of conflict points around the world, and proposals for fairer and more peaceful policies, the participants concluded the congress with a grand gala dinner in the center of Moscow.
The founding leader of the movement, Bulgarian politician Nikolai Malinov, continued to lead the movement at this congress. With the formalization of the movement, a statute was drawn up.
Accordingly: Nikolai Malinov is now officially elected Secretary General of the International Russophile Movement. By virtue of his position, the Secretary General became the highest rank in the movement. The Coordination Board and the Court of Honor were established. Accordingly, Ünver Sel is the head of the Turkish Coordination Board.
Nikolay Malinov, President of the International Russophile Movement, made the following statement at the 2nd Congress “The International Russophile Movement is not united under one political party, one political ideology or one political leader. There are both rightists and leftists in our movement. There are socialists and liberals.”
On the other hand, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Mariya Zakharova, who attended and spoke at the Multipolar World Forum and Congress of the International Rusophile Movement, criticized the narrow and biased ideas of one of the participants, Russian journalist Aleksandr Dugin, in her press conference. She pointed out that these ideas would harm the Russophile Movement.
