In June 2025, the ultraconservative Tsargrad Institute hosted the “Forum of the Future 2050” in Moscow, drawing over 5,000 participants from 14 countries. The event served as both a strategic propaganda campaign and a platform to promote Russia as a moral and technological alternative to the West. Tsargrad welcomed controversial foreign figures such as Alex Jones, George Galloway, and Jeffrey Sachs, emphasizing its global outreach and ideological reach. The star guest, Errol Musk—father of Elon Musk—praised Moscow as a city that could rival ancient Rome and called Vladimir Putin “stable and pleasant,” elevating Moscow’s cultural and geopolitical status.
The forum introduced Tsargrad’s new 62-page strategic plan outlining a vision for Russia’s future by 2050. It promoted a “sovereign digital genome” where AI replaces migrant labor, extreme pro-natalist policies, and harsh restrictions on abortion and women’s labor participation. The plan framed Western liberalism as “anti-human” and “anti-God,” pushing a return to Orthodox, authoritarian values. These proposals aimed to reshape Russian society into a low-density, traditionalist stronghold with demographic engineering at its core.
The broader message of the forum was one of ideological defiance and confrontation. It openly celebrated Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine as the beginning of a “new era of regional world order” and positioned the country as a bulwark against Western hegemony. By blending ultra-nationalism, religious conservatism, and anti-rights rhetoric, the event showcased an emerging global alliance of far-right ideologues united in their rejection of liberal democratic norms.
