The Congress of the International Russophile Movement, which was organized in Moscow on March 14 in the hall of the Pushkin Museum, was attended by, among others, the controversial American actor Steven Seagal, Charles de Gaulle's grandson, an Italian princess who fears that "European boys are encouraged to marry their cows".
"I am here to promote peace and friendship, and I believe that this conflict was provoked and caused by Anglo-Saxon interests... I think it is putting the world in deep danger, and I am here to fight against it," Pierre de Gaulle, the grandson, told The Guardian. French general and one of the speakers at the conference.
He caused controversy last month when he told the French newspaper "Parisien" that the West "unfortunately let (Volodymyr) Zelensky, his oligarchs and neo-Nazi military groups lock themselves in the spiral of war."
His older brother Yves de Gaulle told "Parisienne" in January that his brother's views "do not concern anyone but him - not me, not our family, and even less the general", he stressed, referring to their grandfather.
Pierre de Gaulle did not want to comment on his brother's statement and avoided answering the question of whether his surname could be used to legitimize the war in Ukraine as de Gaulle proudly referred to his grandfather when asked on stage about the conflict.
"My grandfather had a very deep knowledge and intense knowledge of Russian leaders and people. So he was quite aware of the interest and the geographical need for Europe and France to unite with Russia," he said at the conference.
"More and more people are becoming aware that this conflict was created to break up a single European bloc, in favor of the Americans," he added.
However, as "The Guardian" states, the conference could also be viewed as a lucrative opportunity. Pierre de Gaulle, as a banker, stated that he was looking for people "of a different opinion who have a different view of peace", including those who are looking for "financial contracts, investment contracts".
Two Dveri MPs conveyed a message to Russian officials in Moscow that they oppose the European plan for the normalization of relations between Serbia and Kosovo.
Nikolay Malinov, a former member of the Bulgarian parliament who is now under US sanctions, opened the event by saying that it was time for "the forces of light to defeat the forces of darkness".
The congress was also attended by the Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin, who is called "Putin's Rasputin", and the chairman of the board of directors of Tsargrad media group Konstantin Malofeyev.
Steven Seagal, who was appointed as a special representative for Russian-American cultural relations, also appeared on the stage.
"I am 100 percent Russophile and one million percent Russian," Segal said at the press conference.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov delivered the keynote speech and read a message from President Vladimir Putin.
"We are not only seeing neo-Nazism, we are seeing direct Nazism covering more and more European countries. We see how history is being destroyed before our eyes, sacred monuments are being destroyed," Lavrov said.
The congress was also attended by two representatives of the Dveri movement from Serbia. FoNet reported that Ivan Kostić and Borko Puškić spoke with Lavrov. Yesterday, as stated on the website Dveri, in a conversation with members of the Russian Duma, they expressed the view that the European plan to normalize relations with Kosovo is "fatal for Serbia", Radio Free Europe reported.
Among the participants, Princess Vitoria Aliata di Villafranca stood out, a woman in her 70s with bright red hair, perhaps best known in Italy as the first person to translate Tolkien's works into Italian.
She pointed out that "Russophobia" was created for "new formulas of colonization" and linked it to the landing of American troops in Sicily during the Second World War, which she called an excuse for the expansion of Washington's influence.
Aliata said that she was representing the Deutsch-Arabische Gesellschaft (German Arab Association), of which she is the president, at the conference and that she advocated a "message of peace". Asked how she ended up in Russia at the conference of Russophiles, she also said that she was visiting the Russian royal family.
"I am a relative of the Romanovs," she said, referring to the descendants of the last royal family of the Russian Empire.
"I know them very well, I came to the wedding... So it's an imperial connection," she added.
She tried to avoid the topic of war. When asked directly about it, she said: "I'm not an expert on that subject."
"It is my duty to explain how things are. "It has nothing to do with personal sympathies. "I prefer Putin to Biden, but I am a great friend of Obama's half-sister," said the princess.
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