With 400 participants from 15 countries, the event was seen by critics as one that contradicts the Kremlin's official policy, by welcoming leaders of marginal far-right movements and their sympathizers from across Europe, while Moscow at the same time denounces Ukrainian authorities as fascists, Ukraine Today reports.
The forum is aimed at sealing support for the Kremlin’s policy of courting Europe’s anti-EU parties in an attempt to destabilize the European Union.
At the forum, former British National Party Leader, Nick Griffin said that allegations of the fascist nature of the invited political forces were “just liberal smears from the controlled mass media of the West.”
The controversial conference was held less than two months before the 70th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two.
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