Studie: Europees extreem-rechts en Poetin in toenemende mate bondgenoten
Zie hier (pdf).
Allereerst zijn er de ideologische overeenkomsten:
These points are well complemented by Putin’s reformulated ideology built on authoritarianism, law-and-order policies, nationalism and statism, and the proclamation of a kind of – using a term coined by János Ladányi and Iván Szelényi – ‘post-communist neo-conservatism’ against Western values perceived to be on the decline.
In this context, Russia’s EU-skepticism along with the downright anti-EU attitude of the far-right forces of Europe who oppose their own establishment, are ideologically compatible with the ‘Great Russia’ concept and are given as all but natural allies of Putin’s Russia.

