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"Russia must become the bearer of an elevated spiritual and cultural idea what will be attractive for peoples striving to preserve their national individuality under conditions of globalization, which Americanizes and Westernizes anything and everything."

Alexsander Dugin

"Reportedly, Dugin worked with the classified files on the theoreticians of Italian and German fascism, whose papers had been seized by Russian soldiers during and after World War II. He also reportedly researched the files of the Russian Eurasianists, a group of emigre Russian scientists and intellectuals active in the 1920s."

"Also in the late 1970s, Dugin joined an underground group of Moscow intellectuals interested in mysticism, paganism, and fascism, and this experience contributed greatly to Dugin's intellectual development. He reportedly maintained contacts with the group until 1988, when he and another member, Geidar Dzhamal, joined Pamyat, a nationalist, anti-Semitic organization."

"In the run-up to the collapse of the Soviet Union, Dugin began to promote increasingly neo-fascist ideas, even expressing admiration for Adolf Hitler's SS. In 1991, he began publishing "Elementy," an ultra-rightist magazine in which Dugin wrote admiringly of SS leader Heinrich Himmler and other Nazi figures."

"Dugin's flirtation with Nazism reached its peak in the fall of 1993. On the eve of the violent confrontation between President Boris Yeltsin and the opposition-dominated Supreme Soviet, Dugin appeared on the main national television channel as the host of a new series called "Secrets of the Century," which advocated an intellectualized version of fascism."

"Dugin formed an alliance with the controversial writer and activist Eduard Limonov, who launched his National Bolshevik Party in 1994. Dugin became the party's chief ideologue and the editor of its newspaper, "Limonka."

"Dugin's association with the National Bolshevik Party was short-lived. He soon shifted back to the right and attempted to revive the pure Eurasianism that he had earlier studied in the intelligence archives. His 1996 book "Mysteries of Eurasia" is his neo-Eurasianist manifesto. In it, he called for the creation of a Eurasian Union that would comprise Russia, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, Iran, India, the Arab world, and continental Europe and would oppose the United States."

"The leitmotif of "Foundations of Geopolitics" is that the United States is Russia's primary geopolitical adversary and must be destroyed before it destroys Russia."

"In 2000, Dugin created Eurasia, a Moscow-based social-political movement and political party that fully supports Putin."

"Around the same time, Dugin publicly embraced a branch of the Russian Orthodox Church that practices Old Believer rites but recognizes the authority of Moscow Patriarchate. He also began advising the patriarchate on strategies for disseminating Russian Orthodoxy abroad.

The Eurasia party's founding congress was held at the patriarch's Moscow residence in 2002."