Aleksandr Dugin Philosopher

Alexandr Gelyevich Dugin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ге́льевич Ду́гин, Moscow, 7th January 1962) is a Russian philosopher and political scientist known for his fascist views and calls to hasten the "end of times" with all out war. He has two PhDs (Sociology and Philosophy) from NGMA University in Rostov Oblast and is known for his Fourth Political Theory and the Theory of the Multipolar World. He has close ties with the Kremlin and the Russian military, serving as an advisor to State Duma speaker (and key member of the ruling United Russia party) Sergei Naryshkin.Dugin was a professor in the Department of Sociology of International Relations of Moscow State University. In July of 2014, Dugin claimed that he had been offered the Chair of the department, only to be fired from his post and have the offer rescinded because of an alleged softening of the Russian government position on the conflict then ongoing in Ukraine. The university asserted the offer for the department chairmanship resulted from a technical error, and that he would remain a professor under his contract until September 2014. It also stated that he had been hired on a salary that was beyond its budget by the outgoing Dean. He was also the Director of the Center for Conservative Studies at the MSU Sociology Faculty. Dugin was the leading organizer of the National Bolshevik Party, National Bolshevik Front, and Eurasia Party. He is the author of more than 30 books, among them Foundations of Geopolitics and The Fourth Political Theory and is very well known in Traditionalist circles around the world, where he is frequently invited as a lecturer. He focuses on the restoration of the Russian Empire through the unification of Russian-speaking territories, which roughly corresponds to the former Soviet republics, such as Georgia and Ukraine, and unification with Russian-speaking territories, especially eastern Ukraine and Crimea. In the Kremlin, Dugin represents the "war party", a division in the heart of the leadership concerning Ukraine, and is seen as the driving conceptual force behind Vladimir Putin’s initiative for the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation. According to his geopolitical views, he considers the war between Russia and Ukraine to be inevitable and appeals for Putin to start military intervention in eastern Ukraine.Believing that the so-called fifth column has been working for two decades to destroy Russia's sovereignty from the inside, he proposed in 2014 to strip the group from their Russian citizenship and deport it from the country. His confederate Igor Girkin is not as liberal as Dugin and unreservedly demands that the liberal part of the Russian elite be destroyed.Dugin's works have been translated into English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.

Personal facts

Alias (AKA)	Дугин Александр Гельевич (Russian)
Birth date	January 07, 1962
Birth place	Moscow , Soviet Union , Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Main interest	Geopolitics Philosophy Sociology