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'''Aleksandr Gelyevich Dugin''' ({{lang-ru|Алекса́ндр Ге́льевич Ду́гин}}, born 7 January 1962) is a Russian [[political scientist]], [[Traditionalist conservatism|traditionalist]], and one of the most popular [[ideology|ideologists]] of the creation of a Eurasian empire that would be against the "North Atlantic interests". He is known for his proximity to [[fascism]],<ref>{{Citation | first = Anton | last = Shekhovtsov | url = http://northampton.academia.edu/AntonShekhovtsov/Papers/114767/The_Palingenetic_Thrust_of_Russian_Neo-Eurasianism_Ideas_of_Rebirth_in_Aleksandr_Dugins_Worldview | title = The Palingenetic Thrust of Russian Neo-Eurasianism: Ideas of Rebirth in Aleksandr Dugin's Worldview | journal = Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions | volume = 9 | number = 4 | year = 2008 | pages = 491–506}}.</ref><ref>{{Citation | first = Anton | last = Shekhovtsov | url = http://northampton.academia.edu/AntonShekhovtsov/Papers/120422/Aleksandr_Dugins_Neo-Eurasianism_The_New_Right_a_la_Russe | title = Aleksandr Dugin’s Neo-Eurasianism: The New Right à la Russe | journal = Religion Compass: Political Religions | volume = 3 | number = 4 | year = 2009 | pages = 697–716}}.</ref><ref>{{Citation | first = Alan | last = Ingram | url = http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0962-6298(01)00043-9 | title = Alexander Dugin: Geopolitics and Neo-Fascism in Post-Soviet Russia | journal = Political Geography | volume = 20 | number = 8 | year = 2001 | pages = 1029–51}}.</ref><ref>{{Citation | first = Stephen | last = Shenfield | title = Russian Fascism: Traditions, Tendencies, Movements | place = Armonk | publisher = ME Sharpe | year = 2001 | page = 195}}.</ref> and had close ties to the Kremlin and Russian military.<ref name = "Dunlop">{{Citation | url = http://www.princeton.edu/lisd/publications/wp_russiaseries_dunlop.pdf | title = Aleksandr Dugin's Foundations of Geopolitics | first = John B | last = Dunlop | format = [[PDF]] | publisher = Princeton | series = Russia}}.</ref> Dugin serves as an adviser to [[Chairman of the State Duma|State Duma speaker]] (and key member of the ruling [[United Russia]] party) [[Sergei Naryshkin]].<ref>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/23/ukraine-crimea-what-putin-thinking-russia</ref>
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'''Aleksandr Gelyevich Dugin''', (born 7 January 1962) is a Russian political scientist, traditionalist, and one of the most popular ideologists of the creation of a Eurasian empire that would be opposed to "North Atlantic interests". He has had close ties to the Kremlin and Russian military.<ref name = "Dunlop">{{Citation | url = http://www.princeton.edu/lisd/publications/wp_russiaseries_dunlop.pdf | title = Aleksandr Dugin's Foundations of Geopolitics | first = John B | last = Dunlop | format = [[PDF]] | publisher = Princeton | series = Russia}}.</ref> Dugin serves as an adviser to State Duma speaker (and key member of the ruling United Russia party) Sergei Naryshkin.<ref>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/23/ukraine-crimea-what-putin-thinking-russia</ref>
  
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Head of the Department of Sociology of International Relations of [[Moscow State University]]. Director of the Center for Conservative Studies at the [[Faculty of Sociology MSU]].
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Head of the Department of Sociology of International Relations of Moscow State University. Director of the Center for Conservative Studies at the Faculty of Sociology MSU.
  
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Dugin was the leading organizer of the [[National Bolshevik Party]], [[National Bolshevik Front]], and [[Eurasia Party]]. His political activities are directed toward restoration of the [[Russian Empire]] through partitioning of the former Soviet republics, such as [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]] and [[Ukraine]], and unification with Russian-speaking territories, especially [[Eastern Ukraine]] and [[Crimea]].<ref>{{Citation | first = Robert | last = Horvath | type = opinion | url = http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/beware-the-rise-of-russias-new-imperialism-20080820-3yw6.html?page=-1 | title = Beware the rise of Russia's new imperialism | newspaper = The Age | date = August 21, 2008 | place = [[Australia|AU]]}}.</ref><ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.echo.msk.ru/programs/personalno/532383-echo/ | title = Interview | newspaper = [[Echo of Moscow]] | language = Russian}}</ref> He is known for the book ''[[Foundations of Geopolitics]]''.
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Dugin was the leading organizer of the National Bolshevik Party, National Bolshevik Front, and Eurasia Party. His political activities are directed toward restoration of the Russia as a world power, and unification with Russian-speaking territories, especially Eastern Ukraine and Crimea.<ref>{{Citation | first = Robert | last = Horvath | type = opinion | url = http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/beware-the-rise-of-russias-new-imperialism-20080820-3yw6.html?page=-1 | title = Beware the rise of Russia's new imperialism | newspaper = The Age | date = August 21, 2008 | place = [[Australia|AU]]}}.</ref><ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.echo.msk.ru/programs/personalno/532383-echo/ | title = Interview | newspaper = [[Echo of Moscow]] | language = Russian}}</ref> He is known for the book ''Foundations of Geopolitics''.
  
 
==Early life and education==
 
==Early life and education==
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Dugin was born in [[Moscow]], into a family of a colonel-general of the [[GRU|Soviet military intelligence]] and [[Candidate of Science|candidate of law]] Gelij Alexandrovich Dugin and his wife Galina, a doctor and candidate of medicine.<ref name = Literaturnaya>{{cite web |url=http://www.litrossia.ru/2007/15/01412.html |title=Доктор Дугин | publisher=Литературная Россия |accessdate=18 March 2012 | language = Russian}}</ref> In 1979 he entered the [[Moscow Aviation Institute]].
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Dugin was born in Moscow, into a family of a colonel-general of the Soviet military intelligence and candidate of law Gelij Alexandrovich Dugin and his wife Galina, a doctor and candidate of medicine.<ref name = Literaturnaya>{{cite web |url=http://www.litrossia.ru/2007/15/01412.html |title=Доктор Дугин | publisher=Литературная Россия |accessdate=18 March 2012 | language = Russian}}</ref> In 1979 he entered the Moscow Aviation Institute.
  
 
==Early career and political views==
 
==Early career and political views==
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Dugin worked as a journalist before becoming involved in politics just before the fall of communism. In 1988 he and his friend Geydar Dzhemal joined the nationalist group Pamyat. He helped to write the political program for the newly refounded Communist Party of the Russian Federation under the leadership of Gennady Zyuganov.<ref name="Dunlop" />
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{{See also|Foundations of Geopolitics}}
 
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Dugin worked as a journalist before becoming involved in politics just before the fall of [[communism]]. In 1988 he and his friend [[Geydar Dzhemal]] joined the nationalist group [[Pamyat]]. He helped to write the political program for the newly refounded [[Communist Party of the Russian Federation]] under the leadership of [[Gennady Zyuganov]].<ref name="Dunlop" />
 
  
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In his 1997 article ''“Fascism – Borderless and Red”'', Dugin exclaimed the arrival of a “genuine, true, radically revolutionary and consistent, fascist [[fascism]]” in Russia. He believes that it was "by no means the racist and chauvinist aspects of [[National Socialism]] that determined the nature of its ideology. The excesses of this ideology in Germany are a matter exclusively of the Germans, ...while Russian [[fascism]] is a combination of natural national conservatism with a passionate desire for true changes."<ref name = "Andreas" />  "[[Waffen-SS]] and especially the scientific sector of this organization, [[Ahnenerbe]]," was "an intellectual oasis in the framework of the National Socialist regime", according to him.<ref name = "Andreas">{{Citation | first = Andreas | last = Umland | url = http://arama.hurriyet.com.tr/arsivnews.aspx?id=-627970 | title = Will United Russia become a fascist party? | publisher = [[Turkish Daily News]] | date = April 15, 2008}}.</ref>
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In his 1997 article ''“Fascism – Borderless and Red”'', Dugin exclaimed the arrival of a “genuine, true, radically revolutionary and consistent, fascist fascism” in Russia. He believes that it was "by no means the racist and chauvinist aspects of National Socialism that determined the nature of its ideology. The excesses of this ideology in Germany are a matter exclusively of the Germans, ...while Russian fascism is a combination of natural national conservatism with a passionate desire for true changes."<ref name = "Andreas" />  "Waffen-SS and especially the scientific sector of this organization, [[Ahnenerbe]]," was "an intellectual oasis in the framework of the National Socialist regime", according to him.<ref name = "Andreas">{{Citation | first = Andreas | last = Umland | url = http://arama.hurriyet.com.tr/arsivnews.aspx?id=-627970 | title = Will United Russia become a fascist party? | publisher = Turkish Daily News | date = April 15, 2008}}.</ref>
  
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Dugin soon began publishing his own journal entitled ''Elementy'' which initially began by praising Franco-Belgian [[Jean-François Thiriart]], supporter of a Europe "from Dublin to Vladivostok."  Consistently glorifying both [[Tsar]]ist and [[Joseph Stalin|Stalinist]] Russia, ''Elementy'' also revealed Dugin's admiration for [[Julius Evola]].  Dugin also collaborated with the weekly journal ''Den'' (The Day), a bastion of Russian anti-Cosmopolitanism previously directed by [[Alexander Prokhanov]].<ref name = "Dunlop"/>
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Dugin soon began publishing his own journal entitled ''Elementy'' which initially began by praising Franco-Belgian Jean-François Thiriart, supporter of a Europe "from Dublin to Vladivostok."  Consistently glorifying both Tsarist and Stalinist Russia, ''Elementy'' also revealed Dugin's admiration for [[Julius Evola]].  Dugin also collaborated with the weekly journal ''Den'' (The Day), a bastion of Russian anti-Cosmopolitanism previously directed by Alexander Prokhanov.<ref name = "Dunlop"/>
  
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Dugin was amongst the earliest members of the [[National Bolshevik Party]] (NBP) and convinced [[Eduard Limonov]] to enter the political arena in 1994. A part of hard-line nationalist NBP members, supported by Dugin, split off to form the more right-wing, anti-liberal, anti-left, anti-[[Garry Kasparov|Kasparov]] aggressive nationalist organization, [[National Bolshevik Front]]. After breaking with Limonov, he became close to [[Yevgeny Primakov]] and later to [[Vladimir Putin]]'s circle.<ref>{{Citation | first = Jeffrey | last = Mankoff | title = Russian Foreign Policy: The Return of Great Power Politics | publisher = Rowman & Littlefield | year = 2009 | pages = 66–67}}.</ref>
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Dugin was amongst the earliest members of the National Bolshevik Party (NBP) and convinced Eduard Limonov to enter the political arena in 1994. A part of hard-line nationalist NBP members, supported by Dugin, split off to form the more right-wing, anti-liberal, anti-left, anti-Kasparov aggressive nationalist organization, National Bolshevik Front. After breaking with Limonov, he became close to Yevgeny Primakov and later to [[Vladimir Putin]]'s circle.<ref>{{Citation | first = Jeffrey | last = Mankoff | title = Russian Foreign Policy: The Return of Great Power Politics | publisher = Rowman & Littlefield | year = 2009 | pages = 66–67}}.</ref>
  
 
==Formation of the Eurasia Movement==
 
==Formation of the Eurasia Movement==
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The [[Eurasia Party]], later [[Eurasia Movement]], was officially recognized by the Ministry of Justice on May 31, 2001.<ref name="Dunlop"/>  The Eurasia Party claims support by some military circles and by leaders of the Orthodox Christian faith in Russia, and the party hopes to play a key role in attempts to resolve the [[Chechnya|Chechen]] problem, with the objective of setting the stage for Dugin's dream of a Russian strategic alliance with European and Middle Eastern states, primarily [[Iran]]. Dugin's ideas, particularly those on "a [[Turkic peoples|Turkic]]-[[Slavic peoples|Slavic]] alliance in the Eurasian sphere" have recently become popular among certain nationalistic circles in [[Turkey]], most notably among alleged members of the [[Ergenekon network]], which is the subject of a high-profile trial (on charges of conspiracy). Dugin also advocates for a Russo-Arab alliance.<ref>{{cite news|url= http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fgw-dugin4-2008sep04,0,2871108.story?page=1 |title=Russian nationalist advocates Eurasian alliance against the U.S. |work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=2008-09-04 |accessdate= 2008-11-14}}</ref>
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The Eurasia Party, later Eurasia Movement, was officially recognized by the Ministry of Justice on May 31, 2001.<ref name="Dunlop"/>  The Eurasia Party claims support by some military circles and by leaders of the Orthodox Christian faith in Russia, and the party hopes to play a key role in attempts to resolve the Chechen problem, with the objective of setting the stage for Dugin's dream of a Russian strategic alliance with European and Middle Eastern states, primarily Iran. Dugin's ideas, particularly those on "a Turkic-Slavic alliance in the Eurasian sphere" have recently become popular among certain nationalistic circles in Turkey, most notably among alleged members of the Ergenekon network, which is the subject of a high-profile trial (on charges of conspiracy). Dugin also advocates for a Russo-Arab alliance.<ref>{{cite news|url= http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fgw-dugin4-2008sep04,0,2871108.story?page=1 |title=Russian nationalist advocates Eurasian alliance against the U.S. |work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=2008-09-04 |accessdate= 2008-11-14}}</ref>
  
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{{cquote|In principle, Eurasia and our space, the heartland Russia, remain the staging area of a new anti-bourgeois, [[Anti-Americanism|anti-American revolution]]. ... The new [[Russian Empire|Eurasian empire]] will be constructed on the fundamental principle of the common enemy: the rejection of [[Atlanticism]], strategic control of the USA, and the refusal to allow [[Liberalism|liberal]] values to dominate us. This common civilizational impulse will be the basis of a political and strategic union.|author=''[[The Basics of Geopolitics]]'' (1997)}}
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{{cquote|In principle, Eurasia and our space, the heartland Russia, remain the staging area of a new anti-bourgeois, anti-American revolution. ... The new Eurasian empire will be constructed on the fundamental principle of the common enemy: the rejection of [[Atlanticism]], strategic control of the USA, and the refusal to allow liberal values to dominate us. This common civilizational impulse will be the basis of a political and strategic union.|author=''The Basics of Geopolitics'' (1997)}}
  
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He has criticized the "Euro-Atlantic" involvement in the [[Ukrainian presidential election, 2004|2004 Ukrainian presidential election]] as a scheme to create a "[[cordon sanitaire]]" around Russia, much like the [[Border states (Eastern Europe)|French and British attempt]] post-[[World War I]].
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He has criticized the "Euro-Atlantic" involvement in the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election as a scheme to create a "cordon sanitaire" around Russia, much like the French and British attempt post-[[World War I]].
  
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Dugin has criticized Putin for the "loss" of Ukraine, and accused his Eurasianism of being "empty." In 2005 he announced the creation of an anti-Orange youth front to fight similar threats to Russia. The [[Eurasian Youth Union]] created and sponsored by Dugin was accused of vandalism and extremist activities. The organization was banned in Ukraine by the courts and Alexander Dugin was declared [[persona non grata]] due to his anti-Ukrainian activities.<ref>{{Citation | place = [[Ukraine]] | url = http://novynar.com.ua/politics/10949 | title = Politics | contribution = SBU singled out people responsible for Hoveral attack | language = Ukrainian | newspaper = [[Novynar]] | date = 20 October 2007}}.</ref><ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.cacianalyst.org/?q=node/4928 | title = Neo-Eurasianist Alexander Dugin on the Russia–Georgia conflict | title = Central Asia-Caucasus Institute Analyst | date = 3 September 2008}}.</ref>  He was deported back to Russia when he arrived at [[Simferopol International Airport]] in June 2007.<ref>{{cite web| first= Andreas| last= Umland| authorlink= Andreas Umland| url= http://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/op-ed/vitrenkos-flirtation-with-russian-neo-eurasianism-26787.html?flavour=mobile| title= Vitrenko's flirtation with Russian "Neo-Eurasianism" | type = op-ed | work = [[Kyiv Post]]| place = Kiev, UA | date=June 14, 2007}}</ref>
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Dugin has criticized Putin for the "loss" of Ukraine, and accused his Eurasianism of being "empty." In 2005 he announced the creation of an anti-Orange youth front to fight similar threats to Russia. The Eurasian Youth Union created and sponsored by Dugin was accused of vandalism and extremist activities. The organization was banned in Ukraine by the courts and Alexander Dugin was declared persona non grata due to his alleged anti-Ukrainian activities.<ref>{{Citation | place = [[Ukraine]] | url = http://novynar.com.ua/politics/10949 | title = Politics | contribution = SBU singled out people responsible for Hoveral attack | language = Ukrainian | newspaper = Novynar | date = 20 October 2007}}.</ref><ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.cacianalyst.org/?q=node/4928 | title = Neo-Eurasianist Alexander Dugin on the Russia–Georgia conflict | title = Central Asia-Caucasus Institute Analyst | date = 3 September 2008}}.</ref>  He was deported back to Russia when he arrived at Simferopol International Airport in June 2007.<ref>{{cite web| first= Andreas| last= Umland| authorlink= Andreas Umland| url= http://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/op-ed/vitrenkos-flirtation-with-russian-neo-eurasianism-26787.html?flavour=mobile| title= Vitrenko's flirtation with Russian "Neo-Eurasianism" | type = op-ed | work = [[Kyiv Post]]| place = Kiev, UA | date=June 14, 2007}}</ref>
  
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Before [[2008 South Ossetia war|war broke out]] between [[Russia]] and [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]] in 2008, Dugin visited [[South Ossetia]] and predicted, "Our troops will occupy the Georgian capital Tbilisi, the entire country, and perhaps even Ukraine and the Crimean Peninsula, which is historically part of Russia, anyway."<ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,574812,00.html | title = Road to War in Georgia: The Chronicle of a Caucasian Tragedy | newspaper = Spiegel | date = August 25, 2008}}.</ref> Afterwards he said [[Russia]] should "not stop at liberating South Ossetia but should move further," and "we have to do something similar in Ukraine."<ref>{{Citation | place = Moscow, RU | url = http://www.echo.msk.ru/programs/personalno/532383-echo/ | title = Interview | first = Alexander | last = Dugin | newspaper = Ekho Moskvy | date = August 8, 2008}}.</ref>
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Before the 2008 Georgian invasion of South Ossetia, Dugin visited South Ossetia and predicted, "Our troops will occupy the Georgian capital Tbilisi, the entire country, and perhaps even Ukraine and the Crimean Peninsula, which is historically part of Russia, anyway."<ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,574812,00.html | title = Road to War in Georgia: The Chronicle of a Caucasian Tragedy | newspaper = Spiegel | date = August 25, 2008}}.</ref> Afterwards he said [[Russia]] should "not stop at liberating South Ossetia but should move further," and "we have to do something similar in Ukraine."<ref>{{Citation | place = Moscow, RU | url = http://www.echo.msk.ru/programs/personalno/532383-echo/ | title = Interview | first = Alexander | last = Dugin | newspaper = Ekho Moskvy | date = August 8, 2008}}.</ref>
  
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In March 2014 Dugin envisioned a “Russian spring”, in which [[Europe]] would drift away from the [[US]] and close ranks with Russia who then would use its new power to help other countries around the world to “break loose of American hegemony”.<ref>http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/7ef8545c-ab65-11e3-8cae-00144feab7de.html#axzz2x0xTej5I</ref>
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In March 2014 Dugin envisioned a “Russian spring”, in which Europe would drift away from the US and close ranks with Russia who then would use its new power to help other countries around the world to “break loose of American hegemony”.<ref>http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/7ef8545c-ab65-11e3-8cae-00144feab7de.html#axzz2x0xTej5I</ref>
  
 
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Aleksandr Gelyevich Dugin
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Born (1962-01-07) 7 January 1962 (age 62)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Eracontemporary
RegionRussia
Main interestsSociology, geopolitics, philosophy
InstitutionsMoscow State University
Notable ideasNeo-Eurasianism
Websitehttp://www.arcto.ru/

Aleksandr Gelyevich Dugin, (born 7 January 1962) is a Russian political scientist, traditionalist, and one of the most popular ideologists of the creation of a Eurasian empire that would be opposed to "North Atlantic interests". He has had close ties to the Kremlin and Russian military.[1] Dugin serves as an adviser to State Duma speaker (and key member of the ruling United Russia party) Sergei Naryshkin.[2]

Head of the Department of Sociology of International Relations of Moscow State University. Director of the Center for Conservative Studies at the Faculty of Sociology MSU.

Dugin was the leading organizer of the National Bolshevik Party, National Bolshevik Front, and Eurasia Party. His political activities are directed toward restoration of the Russia as a world power, and unification with Russian-speaking territories, especially Eastern Ukraine and Crimea.[3][4] He is known for the book Foundations of Geopolitics.

Early life and education

Dugin was born in Moscow, into a family of a colonel-general of the Soviet military intelligence and candidate of law Gelij Alexandrovich Dugin and his wife Galina, a doctor and candidate of medicine.[5] In 1979 he entered the Moscow Aviation Institute.

Early career and political views

Dugin worked as a journalist before becoming involved in politics just before the fall of communism. In 1988 he and his friend Geydar Dzhemal joined the nationalist group Pamyat. He helped to write the political program for the newly refounded Communist Party of the Russian Federation under the leadership of Gennady Zyuganov.[1]

In his 1997 article “Fascism – Borderless and Red”, Dugin exclaimed the arrival of a “genuine, true, radically revolutionary and consistent, fascist fascism” in Russia. He believes that it was "by no means the racist and chauvinist aspects of National Socialism that determined the nature of its ideology. The excesses of this ideology in Germany are a matter exclusively of the Germans, ...while Russian fascism is a combination of natural national conservatism with a passionate desire for true changes."[6] "Waffen-SS and especially the scientific sector of this organization, Ahnenerbe," was "an intellectual oasis in the framework of the National Socialist regime", according to him.[6]

Dugin soon began publishing his own journal entitled Elementy which initially began by praising Franco-Belgian Jean-François Thiriart, supporter of a Europe "from Dublin to Vladivostok." Consistently glorifying both Tsarist and Stalinist Russia, Elementy also revealed Dugin's admiration for Julius Evola. Dugin also collaborated with the weekly journal Den (The Day), a bastion of Russian anti-Cosmopolitanism previously directed by Alexander Prokhanov.[1]

Dugin was amongst the earliest members of the National Bolshevik Party (NBP) and convinced Eduard Limonov to enter the political arena in 1994. A part of hard-line nationalist NBP members, supported by Dugin, split off to form the more right-wing, anti-liberal, anti-left, anti-Kasparov aggressive nationalist organization, National Bolshevik Front. After breaking with Limonov, he became close to Yevgeny Primakov and later to Vladimir Putin's circle.[7]

Formation of the Eurasia Movement

The Eurasia Party, later Eurasia Movement, was officially recognized by the Ministry of Justice on May 31, 2001.[1] The Eurasia Party claims support by some military circles and by leaders of the Orthodox Christian faith in Russia, and the party hopes to play a key role in attempts to resolve the Chechen problem, with the objective of setting the stage for Dugin's dream of a Russian strategic alliance with European and Middle Eastern states, primarily Iran. Dugin's ideas, particularly those on "a Turkic-Slavic alliance in the Eurasian sphere" have recently become popular among certain nationalistic circles in Turkey, most notably among alleged members of the Ergenekon network, which is the subject of a high-profile trial (on charges of conspiracy). Dugin also advocates for a Russo-Arab alliance.[8]

“ In principle, Eurasia and our space, the heartland Russia, remain the staging area of a new anti-bourgeois, anti-American revolution. ... The new Eurasian empire will be constructed on the fundamental principle of the common enemy: the rejection of Atlanticism, strategic control of the USA, and the refusal to allow liberal values to dominate us. This common civilizational impulse will be the basis of a political and strategic union. ”

—The Basics of Geopolitics (1997)

He has criticized the "Euro-Atlantic" involvement in the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election as a scheme to create a "cordon sanitaire" around Russia, much like the French and British attempt post-World War I.

Dugin has criticized Putin for the "loss" of Ukraine, and accused his Eurasianism of being "empty." In 2005 he announced the creation of an anti-Orange youth front to fight similar threats to Russia. The Eurasian Youth Union created and sponsored by Dugin was accused of vandalism and extremist activities. The organization was banned in Ukraine by the courts and Alexander Dugin was declared persona non grata due to his alleged anti-Ukrainian activities.[9][10] He was deported back to Russia when he arrived at Simferopol International Airport in June 2007.[11]

Before the 2008 Georgian invasion of South Ossetia, Dugin visited South Ossetia and predicted, "Our troops will occupy the Georgian capital Tbilisi, the entire country, and perhaps even Ukraine and the Crimean Peninsula, which is historically part of Russia, anyway."[12] Afterwards he said Russia should "not stop at liberating South Ossetia but should move further," and "we have to do something similar in Ukraine."[13]

In March 2014 Dugin envisioned a “Russian spring”, in which Europe would drift away from the US and close ranks with Russia who then would use its new power to help other countries around the world to “break loose of American hegemony”.[14]

Dugin's works

  • The United States and the New World Order (debate with Olavo de Carvalho), VIDE Editorial (2012)
  • Pop-kultura i znaki vremeni, Amphora (2005)
  • Absoliutnaia rodina, Arktogeia-tsentr (1999)
  • Tampliery proletariata: natsional-bol'shevizm i initsiatsiia, Arktogeia (1997)
  • Osnovy geopolitiki: geopoliticheskoe budushchee Rossii, Arktogeia (1997)
  • Metafizika blagoi vesti: Pravoslavnyi ezoterizm, Arktogeia (1996)
  • Misterii Evrazii, Arktogeia (1996)
  • Konservativnaia revoliutsiia, Arktogeia (1994)
  • Conspirology (in Russian)

 

A Document by Aleksandr Dugin

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Document:Alexander Dugin to the American people on Ukraineletter8 March 2014NATO
Globalisation
2014 Ukraine coup		A letter to 'The American people' from senior Russian academic and advisor to President Putin, Alexander Dugin about the Spring 2014 situation in Ukraine and Russia-western relations generally.
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References

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  14. ↑ http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/7ef8545c-ab65-11e3-8cae-00144feab7de.html#axzz2x0xTej5I

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