Andrey Savelyev is a Russian nationalist politician and a leader of Great Russia party. He is often associated with a most succesfull Russian nationalist Dmitriy Rogozin. In April 1992, together with Dmitry Rogozin, Andrey Savelyev set up the Union for the Revival of Russia, a cross-party structure that would unite Christian Democrats, Cadets and right-wing Social Democrats. From 1999 to 2003, he worked as an adviser to Dmitry Rogozin as chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs and special presidential envoy to Kaliningrad. From November 2002 to April 2003, he worked in Kaliningrad as an analyst for the “Rogozin bureau”. In December 2003, he was elected to the State Duma on the list of the Rodina bloc.

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In 2003-2007, he was a member of the Duma, a member of the Motherland faction. In January 2005, he was one of the 20 deputies who [initiated](http://www.ej.ru/?a=note&id=17926) the so-called Letter 5000 – an appeal to the Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia demanding that all Jewish organisations in Russia be banned for their alleged hate speech.

Savelyev’s book “Can the Congress of Russian Communities Russify Russia” was included in the Federal List of Extremist Materials.

Politically, he is a Russian nationalist and a legitimist monarchist. In 2005 he became the first member of the State Duma since 1912 to take the oath of allegiance to the Head of the House of Romanov, Maria Vladimirovna. Historian and political scientist Viktor Shnirelman, analysing Saveliev’s books “Essays in Political Anthropology” and “The Image of the Enemy. Racology and Political Anthropology”, [describes](https://www.sova-center.ru/files/books/vn07-text.pdf) his views as racist. Saveliev himself does not consider himself a racist and speaks of the “liberal racism” of his political opponents, echoing the ideas of the spiritual leader of the French “New Right” Alain de Benoist. He [believes](https://savliy.livejournal.com/861553.html) that the war in Ukraine was unleashed by the Putin and Zelenski regimes so that Russians would kill Russians.