Eurasia Heritage Foundation

Elena Yatsenko, President of the Eurasia Heritage Foundation

The Eurasia Heritage Foundation proclaims its goals as "establishing a mechanism for effective and efficient communications among the intellectual, political and business elites in the New Independent States; providing the government agencies, international organizations, national elites, mass media with the expertise on the political and socioeconomic processes in the New Independent States; promoting the topics, which are of prime importance to the New Independent States worldwide."[1]

The main activities of the foundation are as follows: conducting researches in the sphere of international relations, social and migration policies;[2] studying and developing concepts and strategies of regional integration;[3] making political, economic and social forecasts; holding conferences, roundtables and workshops;[4] publishing.[5]

In 2004 the Eurasia Heritage Foundation launched “Eurasian Home” analytical and information bilingual website, which is positioned as "an open forum for dialogue and reflection, bringing together experts, politicians and journalists from the New Independent States, Russia, European Union, Asia and America."[6]

The Eurasia Heritage Foundation has a large network of partners in Russia and abroad.[7] Those partners are the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (Russia), “Development Center” Economic Studies Foundation (Russia), the Russkiy Mir Foundation (Russia), the Institute of Public Engineering (Russia), the London School of Economics and Political Science (Great Britain), “NOVAK” Laboratory of Axiometrical Research (Belarus), the Social Monitoring Centre (Ukraine) and others.

The foundation carried out joint projects with the government agencies and international organizations, such as the Commonwealth of Independent States Executive Committee, the Eurasian Economic Community Secretariat, the Ministry of Industry and Energy of the Russian Federation, the Ministry for Economic Development of the Russian Federation, the Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation, the Regional Development Ministry of the Russian Federation, the Federal Migration Service of the Russian Federation, the Committee on the CIS Affairs and Relations with Compatriots of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, the Committee on the CIS Affairs of the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.

The Eurasia Heritage Foundation takes part in the grant programs of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation.[8] The Eurasia Heritage Foundation is one of the founders of “Business Centre for the Economic Development of the CIS”[9] nonprofit partnership; an associate member of Donors Forum of Russia[10] and a corporative member of Eurasian Academy of Television and Radio.

Jointly with “Development Center” Economic Studies Foundation, the Eurasia Heritage Foundation prepares Economic Review “Eurasian Economic Community+ Ukraine” bulletin. In 2005-2008 the Eurasia Heritage Foundation published the following reports: “Single Economic Space: viability, implications and prospects” (2005), “Policy of immigration and naturalization in Russia” (2005); “Thinking Russia: Description of Modern Intellectual Trends” (2006), “The Russian language in the New Independent States”(2008).

• The Eurasia Heritage Foundation
• Eurasian Home website