These articles give a decent background of the Dugan's. They wanted Russia to take over the world and create a one-world order.
Who is Alexander Dugin?
Return to menuDugin, a scathing critic of the United States who has been on its sanctions list since 2015, has often been credited with influencing the Kremlin’s thinking on Russian expansion and Ukraine, although his links to Putin have been sometimes overstated and the extent of their direct relationship is unclear. Dugin doesn’t hold an official government position.
Russian nationalist Alexander Dugin gestures as he addresses the “Battle for Donbas” rally in support of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, in Moscow, on Oct. 18, 2014 (Moscow News Agency/Reuters)
Dugin, who has theorized about a perpetual war between Russia and the West for decades, has long called for the reabsorption of Ukraine into Russia. Experts say his language and expansionist views of Russia’s place in the world have been echoed by the Kremlin and in recent speeches by Putin.
He was active in breakaway regions in the 2008 Russia-Georgia war and in 2014 in Ukraine, where U.S. officials say he recruited individuals with military and combat experience to fight on behalf of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic. The separatist enclave in eastern Ukraine has played a central role in Putin’s justification of the war.
Dugin also controls Geopolitica, “a website that serves as a platform for Russian ultra-nationalists to spread disinformation and propaganda targeting Western and other audiences,” according to U.S. Treasury officials. The website has accused the United States and NATO of provoking war with Russia to “further terrorize the American people in all sorts of malicious ways.”
Who is Daria Dugina, his daughter?
Return to menuDugina, a Russian political commentator and the chief editor of a disinformation website called United World International, had also spoken publicly in support of the war in Ukraine and Russian expansion. The site, as one example, suggested Ukraine would “perish” if it was admitted to NATO. In March, she was added to a list of Russian elites and Russian intelligence-directed disinformation outlets sanctioned by the United States. The British government also put sanctions on Dugina this year.
Who is Alexander Dugin?
Return to menuDugin, a scathing critic of the United States who has been on its sanctions list since 2015, has often been credited with influencing the Kremlin’s thinking on Russian expansion and Ukraine, although his links to Putin have been sometimes overstated and the extent of their direct relationship is unclear. Dugin doesn’t hold an official government position.
Russian nationalist Alexander Dugin gestures as he addresses the “Battle for Donbas” rally in support of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, in Moscow, on Oct. 18, 2014 (Moscow News Agency/Reuters)
Dugin, who has theorized about a perpetual war between Russia and the West for decades, has long called for the reabsorption of Ukraine into Russia. Experts say his language and expansionist views of Russia’s place in the world have been echoed by the Kremlin and in recent speeches by Putin. He was active in breakaway regions in the 2008 Russia-Georgia war and in 2014 in Ukraine, where U.S. officials say he recruited individuals with military and combat experience to fight on behalf of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic. The separatist enclave in eastern Ukraine has played a central role in Putin’s justification of the war.
Dugin also controls Geopolitica, “a website that serves as a platform for Russian ultra-nationalists to spread disinformation and propaganda targeting Western and other audiences,” according to U.S. Treasury officials. The website has accused the United States and NATO of provoking war with Russia to “further terrorize the American people in all sorts of malicious ways.”
Who is Daria Dugina, his daughter?
Return to menuDugina, a Russian political commentator and the chief editor of a disinformation website called United World International, had also spoken publicly in support of the war in Ukraine and Russian expansion. The site, as one example, suggested Ukraine would “perish” if it was admitted to NATO. In March, she was added to a list of Russian elites and Russian intelligence-directed disinformation outlets sanctioned by the United States. The British government also put sanctions on Dugina this year.
In an interview with a Russian YouTuber in March, Dugina said that Ukrainian identity is mostly localized in western Ukraine, and that eastern Ukraine — including the Donbas region — was likely to accept a “Eurasian Empire” on the basis of religious faith and nationality.
In April, she argued that the slaughter of civilians in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha — which sparked calls for a war crimes probe — was staged and portrayed it as an anti-Russian smear campaign. Officials in Bucha say upward of 450 people died while Russian forces held the town — and 419 bodies were found with markings suggesting they had been shot, tortured or bludgeoned to death.
Accounting of bodies in Bucha nears completion