Aleksandr Gelyevich Dugin is said to have great influence on Russian politicians including the current president, Vladimir Putin. His daughter killed by a car bomb. The Russian authorities announced the killing by detonating her car with an explosive device planted under the driver’s seat in a suburb of the capital, Moscow. Daria Dugin worked as a press secretary for her father, who is described as "Putin's brain", a nationalist and one of the most prominent theorists of the Kremlin's ideology who predicted the end of the era of Western liberalism.
To learn more about Dugin, we provide a summary of his ideas that he shared with Aljazeera network in an extended set of interviews (See interview1, and interview 2; Arabic) in which he talked about Russia, the West, Christianity, Islam, Chechnya, Sunnism, and other topics.
Russian identity and change
On the other hand, Dugin spoke to Al Jazeera about the Russian identity and the radical change that he said had affected it over the course of one century, as the country was an empire with its faith and perception, and after the Bolshevik Revolution, perceptions changed dramatically, and in 1991 the Russian identity changed again and Russia became part of The Western world, then Putin, changed identity again and Russia became a powerful country that defends its own conservative values, according to what the Russian philosopher says.
On Russian identity, "Putin's mind" says that his
country is changing its position and "we are in a spiritual search for
ourselves", and it is sensitive to changes.
However, Dugin confirms - in the first part of his meeting
in the episode (14/11/2021) of the "The Interview" program - that Western
tendency is still largely present within Russia, and there is a liberal elite
and strong resistance to President Putin's reforms on the part of liberal
intellectuals, and that This Western tendency hinders the special orientation
of Russia.
He also believes that other civilizations have the right to
rely on their own political teachings that are based on their own values, not
on Western values.
He indicated in the context of his review of his identical
vision with his president's on the Chechen issue, which he said Putin had found
a solution for, as well as with regard to Georgia and Ukraine and the
annexation of the Crimea in 2014.
Fourth political theory
The Russian thinker Alexander Dugin focused in the second
part of his interview with the "The Interview" program on the fourth
political theory, which he said is an anti-capitalist tendency, and talked
about his vision of terrorism and its relations with Iran and Turkey.
Dugin described the fourth political theory as the theory of
revolution and decolonization for Russian society, and it defends the
originality of Russian civilization and human rights, but not according to
Western values, which he said are not totalitarian and are unacceptable neither
in Russia, nor in the Islamic world, nor in China.
Definition of terrorism
In the interview, Ali Al-Dhafiri's guest linked the issue of defining terrorism to the interests of states, and gave an example of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who said that he supported Washington's position after the September 11, 2001 attacks, and in return was waiting for the US administration to classify those he called the Chechen separatists in the category of Terrorists, which did not happen, and the Russian thinker says that Putin understood at that time the meaning of geopolitical considerations.
In another context, Dugin - one of the most prominent
political theorists in Russia - saw that Iran is an ally of Russia and is one
of the opponents of globalization and American leadership, and that radical Sunni Islam in the Arab world had supported the American strategy in the MiddleEast, but the new generation of leaders - continues the speaker - In SaudiArabia, Qatar and Egypt, he is looking for a new approach to Arab Sunni Islam,
and he believes that staying in the orbit of American policy is bad for the
Islamic world.
He also talked about his ideas, and said that he is a
supporter of Islamic traditional values in Iran, but nevertheless he has
strong relations with Turkey, noting in his touch on Russia's future that
Russia is Putin and he determines everything in politics, to conclude his
speech by saying that in his country "the law does not something and rule
everything."
It is noteworthy that after Putin took power in Russia, a
new phase began in Dugin's political activity when he moved from the radical
opposition camp to the pro-power camp.
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