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The Eurasian Scout Region (in Russian Регионального Бюро Евразия) is the divisional office of the World Scout Bureau of the World Organization Of The Scout Movement , (in Russian Всемирной Организации Скаутского Движения or ВОСД) headquartered in Gurzuf near Yalta - Krasnokamenka , Ukraine , with a branch office in Moscow . All the formerly communist states of Central and Eastern Europe , Central Asia and the Soviet Union have developed or are developing Scouting in the wake of the Renaissance In The Region . These include most of the successor states to the Soviet Union, in the Commonwealth Of Independent States . The 1996/99 Triennial Report of the World Scout Committee/World Organization of the Scout Movement shows that WOSM is aggressively pursuing the organization of Scouting activities in the countries of the former Soviet Union, according to its own vision. In 1997, WOSM created the new Eurasian Region, ostensibly to assist in the rebirth of Scouting in the 12 from Moscow. The five national Scouting organizations that were first accepted as members in the World Organization of the Scout Movement-Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Tajikistan, were designated by WOSM as the founding members of the Eurasia Region. Azerbaijan and Russia have since been accepted into WOSM and Belarus lost its membership in 2005. It is this regional office that is now advising the WOSM on possible member organizations. In countries where there is more than one Scouting association, like Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine, these associations can choose to cooperate and form a National Scout Organization. CONTROVERSIES However, there is some controversy, in addition to the aforementioned publication of documents only in the Russian language, as several within the Eurasian Region's top hierarchy are former and failing to list Belarus at all, though showing it as having Scouting on the map there. Alternate solutions proposed at the time of the Soviet Breakup , and still considered viable options by the critics of the Eurasian Region, would be to divide the Region into the previously existing European , Asia-Pacific , or Arab Scout Region s, along cultural lines and national preference, to provide Scouts fresh perspective. As the Baltic states- Estonia , Lithuania and Latvia -have joined the European Region, there is precedence for this solution. In addition, there is no corresponding Eurasian Region for the World Association Of Girl Guides And Girl Scouts , the republics are divided geographically between WAGGGS' Europe Region and Asia Pacific Region . Besides their shared tsarist and Soviet past, the 12 members of the Eurasian Region have little in common. Some, like Armenia and Azerbaijan, have waged war on each other, some like Georgia and Ukraine, allow open opposition, while others, like Belarus and Turkmenistan, have turned to authoritarianism reminiscent of Soviet times. Further, as none of the republics have had their Scout movements returned for much more than a decade, it is viewed that they would benefit from the expertise of the neighboring Scout associations in those Regions. EXTERNAL LINKS AND REFERENCES |
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