Dugin is indeed a “Kremlin fascist ideologue” with links to the Kremlin and a top position in a university. He also appears on state run Russian media. If he was not supported or useful for the regime, he would not maintain his position nor ever be heard of.
Riiiiight. Because when you’re inside the political circle, you publish the conspiracies you wish would unfold in the public press, as opposed to whisper them to the key officials needed to make it happen (/sarcasm).
Of course, the author excluded the part where Dugin called for the close cooperation of Turkish Islamofascists to support Russia’s move into Odessa. See, Putin is part of an alliance between the Russian Orthodox Church, family-run farmers, anti-Communists and native Russian industrialists. Dugin’s faction is composed of neo-Stalinists, an insufficiently small handful of oligarchs which have been broken up by Putin, Islamofascists, Chi-com wanna-bes and atheist extremists. Yeah, you’re free to believe Putin’s Christianity is bulls**t; the point is constituencies, not seeing deep into his soul. And Dugin and Putin have fundamentally opposed constituencies.
If you want a conspiracy that says Dugin and Putin are close, then the more reasonable conspiracy is not that Putin is secretly an admirer of Dugin, but rather that Putin has set Dugin up as an ineffective leader of communist malcontents, much like the way it seems that Boehner is a closet socialist pretending to be an ineffective leader of conservatives.