Ideologue’s views helped shape ideas behind Ukraine invasion, but his influence on Putin is disputed
Photograph: Moscow News Agency/ReutersPhotograph: Moscow News Agency/Reutersn Saturday night, the violence that the ultranationalist Russian thinker Alexander Dugin had propagandised for decades suddenly entered his own life when his daughter wasWith long hair and a grey-white beard, Dugin is arguably one of Russia’s most well-known ideologues and has variously been described as “Putin’s brain” or “Putin’s Rasputin”.
vision of Russia, a country he said was destined to face off against an individualistic, materialistic west. Dugin’s worldview is most clearly articulated in his 1997 publication The Foundations of Geopolitics, which reportedly became a textbook in the Russian general staff academy and solidified his transition from a dissident to a prominent pillar of the conservative establishment.
Twenty-five years later, Russia’s president repeated some of Dugin’s views on Ukraine in his 4,000-word essay, which many saw as a blueprint for the invasion he launched just six months after it was published.
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