{"id":382,"date":"2014-04-03T09:38:43","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T13:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/?p=382"},"modified":"2022-03-11T18:28:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T22:28:13","slug":"foreign-affairs-on-dugin-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/2014\/04\/03\/foreign-affairs-on-dugin-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Affairs on Dugin &amp; Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Articles posted on this blog have refererred repeatedly to Eurasianist ideologue and &#8220;conservative revolutionary&#8221; Aleksandr Dugin and his connection to Vladimir Putin&#8217;s expansionist strategy in Crimea.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/articles\/141080\/anton-barbashin-and-hannah-thoburn\/putins-brain?cid=soc-facebook-in-snapshots-putins_brain-040114\">This article in the Council on Foreign Relations&#8217; journal\u00a0<em>Foreign Affairs<\/em><\/a>\u00a0puts the Putin-Dugin relationship into some historical and political context.<\/p>\n<p>While the article doesn&#8217;t discuss this in any detail, the Dugin-led Eurasianist Youth Movement has been influential in fueling opposition to Ukraine&#8217;s interim government in areas of southern and eastern Ukraine.<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif?w=510&#038;ssl=1\" \/><!--more-->See, for instance,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/maidantranslations.com\/2014\/04\/02\/known-russian-fascist-aleksandr-dugin-instructs-ukrainian-separatists\/\">news about a leaked Skype call between Dugin and a leader of separatists in Donetsk<\/a>,\u00a0analyses of Dugin&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/anton-shekhovtsov.blogspot.com\/2014\/02\/russian-fascist-aleksandr-dugin-is.html\">dreams of dictatorship<\/a>\u00a0and \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/anton-shekhovtsov.blogspot.com\/2014\/03\/is-putin-new-hitler-in-making.html\">his fascism<\/a>, and accounts of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/ideas\/2014\/03\/09\/putin-long-game-meet-eurasian-union\/1eKLXEC3TJfzqK54elX5fL\/story.html\">Eurasian Youth Movement<\/a>\u00a0and its\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hnn.us\/article\/23821\">relationship to Ukraine&#8217;s Progressive Socialist Party<\/a>. The preamble to Russia&#8217;s annexation of Crimea\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.psi.ulaval.ca\/fileadmin\/psi\/documents\/Documents\/Travaux_et_recherches\/Crimee.pdf\">is discussed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Note also that Dugin has shared the <em>Foreign Affairs<\/em> article on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/alexandr.dugin?fref=ts\">his Facebook page<\/a>\u00a0without any commentary (and with several dozen &#8220;likes&#8221; now by his followers).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Articles posted on this blog have refererred repeatedly to Eurasianist ideologue and &#8220;conservative revolutionary&#8221; Aleksandr Dugin and his connection to Vladimir Putin&#8217;s expansionist strategy in Crimea.\u00a0This article in the Council on Foreign Relations&#8217; journal\u00a0Foreign Affairs\u00a0puts the Putin-Dugin relationship into some historical and political context. 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