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To understand who Alexander Dugin is — often described as
“Russia’s main philosopher” — it is enough to look briefly at his biography.
During his studies, he was expelled in his second year. At a
young age, he became involved in marginal radical circles, including the
so-called “Black Order of the SS,” where he adopted extravagant titles. He
later joined the Yuzhinsky Circle, an informal group that many researchers
associate with the emergence of ultranationalist and neo-fascist ideas in
post-Soviet Russia.
In the following years, Dugin collaborated with other
far-right organizations but was eventually expelled from some of them due to
internal conflicts and ideological extremism, including controversial esoteric
interests.
From an early stage, his intellectual development took place
far outside the framework of academic philosophy or democratic political
thought. Decades later, this same figure became one of the most frequently
cited ideologues of Russia’s contemporary imperial and revisionist worldview.
This trajectory raises serious questions — not of a medical
nature, but about the intellectual foundations and ideological sources shaping
modern Russian state narratives.
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