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In the News (Thu 24 Dec 09)

  
  [ Russian Election Special ]
Dugin became the party's chief ideologue and the editor of its newspaper, "Limonka." Later that year, Dugin published the well-known monograph "Conservative Revolution," which attempted to articulate a single philosophy that combined certain fascist-conservative dogmas with ultra-leftist political slogans and revolutionary cultural avant-gardism.
Dugin argues that the KGB plotted with the CIA and Israel's Mossad to destroy the Soviet Union.
In 1998-2001, Dugin and his followers began to shift from such a radical, ultra-right stance to one more compatible with Russia's political mainstream, with the goal of propagating their views among the ruling elite.
www.rferl.org /specials/russianelection/bio/dugin.asp   (1482 words)

  
 Window on Eurasia: Eurasians Organize 'Anti-Orange' Front in Russia, CIS
Dugin said that this alliance will include non-Russian nationalists from the Middle Volga region of the Russian Federation as well as from Georgia and Ukraine, the three areas that the Eurasian leader suggests are currently most threatened by and interested in carrying out revolutions intended to undermine the status and power of the Kremlin.
Dugin added that the new group, which he said already has commitments from organizations with more than 25,000 members, plans to convene a constituent congress before the end of this year.
Consequently, Dugin's actions should be considered not as an independent move but rather as part and parcel of the Kremlin's broader efforts to block what it sees as the threat to itself inherent in "orange"-style revolutions -- albeit one of the more extreme and ultimately deniable parts of that strategy.
www.mari.ee /eng/articles/polit/2005/09/01.htm   (745 words)

  
 LaurenceJarvikOnline: Eurasianism Explained
Aleksandr Gelyevitch Dugin, founder of the International Eurasian Movement, attempted to explain the ideological prospects and tendencies for this Russian geopolitical movement -- "not a party," he insisted -- last Wednesday night, at Johns Hopkins' Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington.
Dugin covered the history of Russia from the adoption of Orthodoxy to the chaos of the Yeltsin years, and explained that Russia needed a new identity, and Eurasianism could provide it.
Dugin's ideas appear to be based on a traditional geopolitical world-view, rooted in the control of land.
laurencejarvikonline.blogspot.com /2005/10/eurasianism-explained.html   (794 words)

  
 THE RISE OF THE EURASIANS
And that background is reflected in the earlier career of the leader of the movement, Aleksandr Dugin.
According to Dugin, the economic strength of the naval powers is based on their control of the oceans.
Dugin, who also serves as an official adviser to Duma speaker Gennady Seleznyov, has stressed, however, that he does not seek power but only an extension of his ideological influence.
www.cc.jyu.fi /~aphamala/pe/issue4/yasmann.htm   (550 words)

  
 Religioscope > Archives > Russia: religion looms as electoral factor
Eurasia leader Aleksandr Dugin commented that the number of actively practising members of traditional confessions was "measly".
Maintaining that the Orthodox Church genuinely held its neutral position, Dugin nevertheless suggested that it was of little political consequence precisely because voters' confessional adherence was only loosely related to particular religious institutions and practices.
Dugin provided one example of how religious considerations might be used to affect the fortunes of a particular political party.
www.religioscope.info /article_112.shtml   (651 words)

  
 УНIАН
Dugin has become famous in Russia during the last years and is more and more present in Russian mass media, but has not (yet) been broadly noted in Ukraine.
Yet, what Dugin blamed the fascist regimes and parties of inter-war Europe for was that they were too moderate, too incoherent, too soft, and not truly revolutionary.
As far as Dugin is concerned, Vitrenko has, by entering the International Eurasian Movement`s Highest Council, it appears, officially accepted intellectual leadership from somebody who has not hesitated to formulate repeatedly and explicitly a deep attraction to fascism.
www.unian.net /news/print.php?id=152563   (2244 words)

  
 Turks.US Daily News - 'Eurasia and Europe should Cooperate against America'
According to Russian strategist Alexandr Dugin, geopolitics as a philosophy of location is one of the most fundamental instruments that the postmodern age has developed against the historicism of modernity.
Dugin has attempted to make the global status of Russia meaningful among generations, in the framework of geopolitics that he defines as mankind's mutual dealing with location.
Aleksandr Dugin was born in Moscow in 1962.
www.turks.us /article~story~20040729225435655.htm   (2382 words)

  
 Tsygankov -- RusEurasPap
Dugin has emerged as a public intellectual in the early 1990s and is currently a leader of the recently established conservative movement “Eurasia.” He has also served as an advisor to some prominent leaders of Russian Communist Party, such as Gennadiy Seleznev.
First and foremost, Dugin is convinced that Russia must rebuild its empire by pursuing a new type of domestic reform and a new series of external geopolitical alliances.
Accordingly, Dugin argues for Russia’s three special projects—the Pan-European, the Pan-Asiatic, and the Pan-Arab—with the ultimate goal of reaching out to the seas and oceans in the north, south, and the east, and therefore becoming a self-sufficient geopolitical empire.
bss.sfsu.edu /tsygankov/Research/RusEurasPap.htm   (10117 words)

  
 Russia, Politics, National Bolsheviks - JRL 4-30-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Dugin was also a proponent of the idea of a "conservative revolution" pitting Eurasia against the Atlantic powers of Great Britain and the United States.
Dugin was also an editor of the party newspaper, "Limonka." Looking back at the NBP's activities in the 1990s, the leader of the rival Communist Party-controlled Young Left Front, Ilya Ponamarev, told kreml.org on 4 April that "the organization never was or is a youth movement at all."
After Dugin's exit, the NBP quickly moved to the left wing of Russia's political spectrum, accusing Dugin and his group of being fascists.
www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/9135-14.cfm   (1511 words)

  
 Hoover Institution - Hoover Digest - Russia’s New—and Frightening—“Ism”
Belarus, Dugin pronounces, “should be seen as part of Russia.” In a similar vein, Moldova is assigned to what Dugin terms the “Russian South.” On Ukraine, Dugin stipulates that, with the exception of its three westernmost regions—Volhynia, Galicia, and Transcarpathia—Ukraine, like Belarus, constitutes an integral part of Russia-Eurasia.
Dugin’s Foundations of Geopolitics represents a harsh and cynical repudiation of the architecture of international relations that was laboriously erected following the Second World War and the emergence of nuclear weapons.
Dugin and his “system” want to return us, it seems, to the combustible interwar period and something akin to the rise of fascism in Europe, with the lurid imperial fantasies of Il Duce, the führer, and other demagogues.
www.hoover.org /publications/digest/3020531.html   (920 words)

  
 Aleksandr Dugin in the West
Dugin, on the contrary, is determinedly anti-liberal and yet geopolitical in his application of Russian/Slavic nationalism.
To compound the problem, if Dugin is, as “The Sinopist” claims, so pragmatic in the ideological content he ascribes to his dynamic, why would he not, if American, simply ascribe neoconservatism and even liberal democracy to it.
Neither Dugin nor the two speakers in the dialogue appear to be conscious of that, perhaps because when the enormous importance race holds for the West reveals itself it does so as an awakening.
majorityrights.com /index.php/weblog/comments/aleksandr_dugin_in_the_west   (2897 words)

  
 20th WCP: Main Trends of Contemporary Russian Thought
This version, developed in the writings of Aleksandr Yakovlev, the chief official ideologist of perestroika, involves the radical criticism of Marxism as a non-scientific and anti-humanist theory which, with its all-inclusive determinism, underestimates the sovereignty of consciousness, reducing personality to a function of social circumstances.
Merab Mamardashvili (1930-90) and Aleksandr Piatigorsky (some of their works were written in collaboration) undertook a phenomenological analysis of consciousness, with a special interest in non-classical, post-rationalist and Oriental types of logic.
The other promoted by Aleksandr Dugin is radical traditionalism, proclaiming the restoration of a paganist, esoteric legacy and the unification of Eurasia into one Empire under Russian guidance with the aim of waging spiritual war on the secularized and materialist West.
www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Cont/ContEpst.htm   (5175 words)

  
 ISN Security Watch - Russia’s National Bolsheviks and velvet terror
While Limonov became the leader of the NBP, its chief ideologue was Aleksandr Dugin, the main standard bearer of the neo-imperialistic doctrine of Eurasianism.
Dugin was also a proponent of the idea of a “conservative revolution” pitting Eurasia against the Atlantic powers of Great Britain and the US.
Dugin was also an editor of the party newspaper, Limonka.
www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?ID=11213   (1580 words)

  
 ISCIP - Perspective
Indeed, by all indications, growing emphasis on geopolitics from all corners of the Russian political spectrum is rapidly elevating Eurasianism to the level of a mainstream ideology.
Dugin's leading work, Osnovi Geopolitiki: Geopolitichiskoye Budushiye Rossiyi (The Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia), serves as the cornerstone of the new Eurasianism.
Dugin's influence is also visible in Russia's recent rapprochement with Germany.
www.bu.edu /iscip/vol12/berman.html   (1712 words)

  
 Stephen Roth Institute: Antisemitism and Racism
Dugin describes Jews as the primary successors to the so-called Atlantic tradition, and declares in his book Conspirologia that a “secret Atlantic order” was responsible for the fall of the Soviet Empire.
Aleksandr Verkhovskii published a list of RNE members, which was found in the Russian parliament during the October battles of 1993.
Dugin's previously mentioned construction of a connection between Jews and “Atlantics” shows a strong similarity to Yakushev's anti-Semitic apologetic for élites.
www.tau.ac.il /Anti-Semitism/asw99-2000/mathyl.htm   (6344 words)

  
 The Rise of Integral Anti-Americanism in the Russian Mass Media and Intellectual Life
Dugin has transformed himself from a lunatic fringe figure openly admitting his sympathies for various permutations of inter-war fascism in the 1990s to a “radically centrist” Putin-supporter and well-regarded guest commentator in mainstream Russian mass media.
In most of his public statements, to be sure, Dugin plays down the influence of Western authors on his thinking, and instead uses the term “neo-Eurasianism” (an explicit reference to a reputed Russian émigré intellectual movement of the 1920s and 1930s)—an obvious attempt to hide his true sources.
Among the current members of the Highest Council of Dugin’s International Eurasian Movement, for instance, are several relevant Russian political figures including Minister of Culture Vladimir Sokolov, Presidential Aide Alsambek Aslakhanov, Federation Council Vice-Speaker Aleksandr Torshin, or the Chairman of the International Affairs Committee of the Federation Council Mikhail Margelov.
hnn.us /articles/26108.html   (1115 words)

  
 Policy Watch: Moscow's Multipolar Mirage
Dugin advocates the creation of a multipolar world as a means of resisting what he sees as American "unipolarism" as well as American-sponsored globalization.
While Dugin indicated his agreement with Samuel Huntington (author of The Clash of Civilizations) that the world is divided into different civilizations, he disagreed with him about the inevitability of their clashing.
Dugin seems to have two main goals: to resist pressure for democratization and liberalization in Russia while at the same time resurrecting Russia's status as a great power.
www.spacewar.com /news/superpowers-05q.html   (1217 words)

  
 The Crisis of the modern World, the New World Order and Kali Yuga
His high sponsors were marshall Zhukov and general Aleksandr Poskrebyshev (who, according to some sources, carried over at Stalin a mission similar to Martin Bormann’s at Hitler, that is was the vehicle of germanophile ideas).
During the ‘60s Shtemenko was one of the key figures in the Soviet Army: in different periods he was commander of the armed forces of the Warsaw Agreement countries and chief of the General Staff of the USSR.
Aleksandr Nikolaevic Yakovlev already from the beginning of the ‘70s was one of the major ideologists of the open atlantism in the USSR.
www.geocities.com /integral_tradition/warcont.html   (13739 words)

  
 RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
Writing in "Literaturnaya gazeta," No. 50, Aleksandr Dugin, the controversial leader of Eurasian party, said that both Russia's ruling class and its political opposition have experienced extreme difficulties in their efforts to be the leading political force in the country.
Dugin said that, as one of the biggest factions in the Duma, the Communist Party has failed to create an attractive informational outlet to promote its views nationwide.
According to Dugin, President Putin found the most success when he publicly stated that modern Russia should absorb all periods of her history, including the Soviet one, and proclaimed the sentiment shared by Dugin's Eurasian party that "Russia should exist as great power, or not at all." VY
www.rferl.com /newsline/2001/12/1-RUS/rus-141201.asp   (2128 words)

  
 Religioscope - Russia: Varied State Response to Orthodox-Catholic Rift
On 18 February Aleksandr Dugin, adviser to the Duma on geopolitical issues, reportedly alleged that the Vatican's decision to form fully-fledged dioceses in Russia was made under pressure from Washington.
Since the move constituted "a colossal anti-Orthodox and therefore anti-Russian step," explained Dugin, it would upset the recent rapprochement between Russia and Europe and hence prevent the formation of "a new political bloc in which America's role would be weakened."
Speaking at a press conference held in RIA Novosti on 15 February, the head of the Catholic Church in Russia, Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, characterised the Russian foreign ministry's 12 February statement as "incomprehensible" and "late".
www.religioscope.com /info/notes/2002_017_russia_ortho_catho.htm   (455 words)

  
 Foreign Policy Association: Resource Library: ‘EURASIANIST THEORY: CONSEQUENCES TO THE STRATEGIC SECURITY OF THE ...
As some analysts suggest, Putin is clearly attracted to the Russian ultra-nationalist and geopolitician Aleksandr Dugin's visions for an empire of all Eurasia, dominated by Russia, advocated by his ‘Eurasianist Movement' (6).
Dugin has expressed his opinions through his speeches and writing in which he presents himself as a passionate agitator of crusader mentality against ‘Islamic threat'.
Dugin has expressed him-self against the Baltic countries, Poland, Turkey and other frontier nations around Russia, and is believed to be constructing the new applicant ideology for ‘Russian mission' in the post-Soviet Empire's era.
www.fpa.org /topics_info2414/topics_info_show.htm?doc_id=305796   (1575 words)

  
 EurasiaNet Eurasia Insight - Central Asia: The Mechanics Of Russian Influence
As Dmitry Shlapentokh pointed out in a September 2 commentary on EurasiaNet, such notions of "benevolent imperialism" emerge from the political philosophy of Eurasianism as it was espoused by a number of Russian thinkers in the 1920s.
For one, Dugin’s project, despite its Eurasianist geopolitical pretensions, is firmly rooted in the vicissitudes of domestic politics.
In this context, Dugin’s comment on business makes perfect sense: if people with money who "know what’s what" have forked over enough cash to give a nationalist youth movement a "solid economic base," one can safely assume it’s not for a revolution at home.
www.eurasianet.org /departments/insight/articles/pp091605.shtml   (1690 words)

  
 Russia Reform Monitor No. 883, December 26, 2001
In this context, according to Putin, the GRU is an important part of Russian military efforts in the Caucasus, and especially in Chechnya, where 421 officers of the agency have been killed over the past two years.
Russia's efforts to align itself with Western democracies are bound to fail because they contradict the geopolitical and economic interests of the West, Aleksandr Dugin, the controversial leader of the Eurasia Movement, told the strana.ru news website.
Therefore, according to the geostrategist, the most probable result of the upcoming U.S.-Russia summit will be a disappointment in the new foreign policy course being charted by President Vladimir Putin, and a subsequent retreat to old policy positions.
www.afpc.org /rrm/rrm883.htm   (622 words)

  
 CENTRAL ASIA: THE MECHANICS OF RUSSIAN INFLUENCE
In early September, Dugin held a press conference in Moscow to announce plans to unify nationalist youth movements in an effort to fight the spread of "orange" revolutions, "Vremya novostei" reported on 8 September.
Though the rhetoric is tantalizing, it does not necessarily form a natural backdrop to a neo-imperialist turn in Russian foreign policy.
In other words, Dugin's new project, like the Kremlin-sponsored youth group Nashi, falls under the rubric of nationalist-tinged attempts to stir up popular sentiment for a defense of the status quo.
www.eurasianet.org /lexisnexis/5382.html   (1545 words)

  
 Union of Councils for Soviet Jews: Motherland Party Feigns Shock Upon “Finding” Fascists on its Electoral List
The candidacies of all eight had been confirmed by the congresses of their parties and then by a conference of the Motherland electoral bloc, but they were removed by the bloc's leadership on the eve of the registration of the list at the Central Electoral Commission.
Involuntary association with the Barkashovites has embarrassed not just former Yabloko-ite Vyacheslav Igrunov, but also the "Eurasian" Aleksandr Dugin who at one time had become carried away with the popularization of fascism.
It was Dugin who caused the first scandal for the leaders of the bloc by stating that he could not keep company with the "browns." Viktor Gerashchenko was wounded to the bottom of his soul by the circumstance that had suddenly been revealed.
www.fsumonitor.com /stories/100903Russia.shtml   (853 words)

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