Is It a Fork in the Road Thought Russia?

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The idea that human beings feel more comfortable living in a culture, which they recognize and feel rooted in is politically controversial these days. Weston alism needs to grapple with this issue better, he says. The war has reopened new pasts or ways of imagining the future for russia. But you can also have the kind of dugin past, i think, as also be reopened, or opened with war. And we could now imagine a very closed, marginalized, isolationist russia That will be really kind of much more repressive hen we see that.

Freddie Sayers meets Marlene Laruelle.

Aleksandr Dugin, the ultra-nationalist Russian philosopher and erstwhile organiser of the National Bolshevik Party, has been referred to as ‘Putin’s brain’. Professor Marlene Laruelle, the world’s leading expert on Dugin, says his influence is no longer direct. Dugin stated mission is to preserve the "Russian soul" and expand the Eurasian empire in defiance of the West. Today, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and increasingly isolated global position feels like some of these visions have become a dark reality. Freddie Sayers sat down with Laruelle to seek a deeper understanding of the oft-quoted concept of the "Russian soul", what Dugin wants and how Putin might be able to help him get it.

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