Jean de Gliniasty is director of research at Iris, former ambassador to Moscow. He has just published
“La Russie, un nouveau échiquier”
, published by Eyrolles.
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LE FIGARO. - Alexandre Douguine and his daughter, Daria Douguina, were targeted by an attack. The latter did not escape. Both are personalities who embody the new aspiration for a “Greater Russia”. What is the impact of this attack on the minds in Russia?
Jean DE GLINIASTY. -
Alexander Dugin is not a Russian national personality.
I would say paradoxically that he is better known in Europe than in Russia itself.
That said, he embodies a fairly deep movement, which is linked to the Slavophile heritage, that is to say a current of thought which believes that Russia has a specific role to play in the world, based on a Eurasian identity. , with a messianic mission.
It would thus be supposed to preserve the values of Christianity and the specific values of Russian civilization.
Many Russians share…
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