Alexey Valeryevich Dzermant (sometimes published as Derman,[1] also Dermant or Dzermanis; Belarusian: Аляксей Валер'евіч Дзермант (Дзерман, Дзерманіс); born (1979-06-04)4 June 1979, in Talgar, Almaty Region, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR) is a Belarusian philosopher, journalist and political observer, characterized in non-governmental media as a pro-government political analyst.
("Gega Ruch" referred to its ideological predecessor, the Belarusian National Socialist Party [ru] of the 1930s, which was oriented towards the NSDAP[9]).
[16] In 2012, during the roundtable "The Disintegration of Russia: Threats and Strategies for Regional Security," he called the Eurasian Union "more of an economic election declaration," with no prospect of real content.
[27] Dzermant is the editor-in-chief of the Internet portal imhoclub.by and a member of the Scientific and Expert Council under the chairman of the board of the Eurasian Economic Commission.
[13] Together with Peter Petrovsky [ru] and Alexander Shpakovsky, he participated in the Sonar 2050 project, which, according to political scientist Sergei Bogdan and philosopher Vladimir Matskevich, was funded by the Russian Presidential Administration.
[36] Ilya Azar, a journalist for the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, referred to Dzermant as "almost the only public person in Minsk with pro-Russian views.
[38] The ISANS Analytical Center mentioned Alexey Dzermant and Alexander Shpakovsky [ru] as active figures in pro-Russian organizations in Belarus.
[41] However, Peter Petrovsky [ru], one of the authors of imhoclub.by, claimed that the correspondence was falsified as part of a discredit campaign organized by the Ukrainian special services due to their refusal to change the editorial policy of imhoclub.by.