Eurasian Scout Region (World Organization of the Scout Movement)

Eurasian Scout Region
Owner	World Organization of the Scout Movement
Headquarters	Kyiv, Ukraine
Defunct	1 October 2023[1][2]
Website www.scout.org/eurasia
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Eurasian Scout Region

  Member states

• Armenia
• Azerbaijan
• Belarus
• Georgia
• Kazakhstan
• Moldova
• Russian Federation
• Tajikistan
• Ukraine

  Potential member states

• Kyrgyzstan
• Turkmenistan
• Uzbekistan

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The Eurasian Scout Region (Russian: Евразийский Скаутский Регион, Ukrainian: Євразійський скаутський регіон) was 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 Kyiv,^[3] formerly located at Gurzuf near Yalta-Krasnokamianka, 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 former Soviet Republics: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. Several of the organizations in the Region were borne from existing Scouts-in-Exile organizations. Russian was made the working language, and eight Scouting manuals and handbooks have been published, all in Russian. A quarterly periodical, also in Russian, is printed in the branch office in Moscow. The report states, "The regional office will regularly translate WOSM documents into Russian." The executive director of this region is Iurie Emilian of Moldova.^[4]

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, Russia, and Ukraine have since been accepted into WOSM; Belarus lost its membership in 2005 and regained it in 2010. 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.

A WOSM joint Eurasian-and-European Scout meeting was held in Kyiv in April 2009.

In 2023, the Region, in consultation with the European and Asia-Pacific Regions as well as the World Scout Committee decided to dissolve on 30 September.^[1] Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan joined the European Region on 1 October, while Kazakhstan, Russia and Tajikistan joined the Asia-Pacific Region.^[1][2]