Aleksandr Dugin Wants to See a Return to Russian Imperialism
While Western pundits denounce Moscow’s actions in Ukraine, it’s clear that there is some support for Putin in the former Soviet state. The latest figures show overwhelming opposition to Russian military intervention throughout most of the country, but those polled in eastern Ukraine—where pro-Russian forces have been seizing official buildings and holding journalists and military observers captive—are notably less opposed to the presence of Russian troops on Ukrainian soil.
This surge of Russian nationalism has presumably gone down pretty well in the Kremlin, and it’s also bound to have pleased the man who was recently labeled the “brain” behind Putin’s annexation of Crimea, Aleksandr Dugin. Dugin is head of the Department of Sociology of International Relations of Moscow State University and an advisor to Sergei Naryshkin, a key member of Putin’s United Russia party. He’s also spent the past couple of decades advocating the restoration of the Russian Empire through the partitioning of former Soviet republics—an expansionist ideology that some have suggested is part of Putin's own agenda.
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In 2008, before war broke out between Russia and Georgia, Dugin proclaimed: "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.” Of course, Dugin’s vision has already partly become reality, but he doesn’t want the expansion to stop at Russia’s takeover of Crimea.
As a founder of Russia’s Eurasia Party—and, unsurprisingly, a leading advocate of Eurasianism—Dugin’s political outlook is one based around anti-liberalism, anti-Americanism, and a return to Russian imperialism. The Eurasianism ideology, developed among the Russian émigré community during the 1920s, regards Russia as having closer links to Asia than Europe or the rest of the West. Dugin wants to see the formation of a new Eurasian empire that will include every state from the former Soviet Union, as well as extending into other Asian countries.
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Because Nuland and pensions.
