Eurasian Observatory for Democracy and Elections (EODE) is a Russia-based Eurasianist

non-governmental organization A non-governmental organization (NGO) or non-governmental organisation (see spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from government. They are typically nonprofit entities, and many of them are active in h ...

which on its website claims that it monitors elections. According to its website, it specializes in the "self-proclaimed republics" (

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, Transdnistria, Nagorno-Karabakh). It is led by the Belgian activist

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and Jean-Pierre Vandersmissen. Both Michel and Vandermissen are followers of the Belgian

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politician Jean-François Thiriart. Oliver Bullough, writing for ''

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'', 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

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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

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External links

EODE website

References

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