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18. Interview with Petr Suslov, 2010.

19. Interview with Petr Suslov, October 2009.

1. Charles Clover, ‘Russians “adopting illiberal ideas”’, Financial Times , 16 May 2001.

2. Interview with Sergey Kurginyan, 2011.

3. http://evrazia.org/article/164

4. http://evrazia.org/article/1876

5. Elena Tregubova, Bayki Kremlevskogo Diggera , Ad Marginem, 2003.

6. Ilya Zhegulev and Lyudmila Romanova, Operatsiya Edinaya Rossiya: Neizvestnaya istoriya partii vlasti , Eksmo, 2011.

7. ibid.

8. Alexander Dugin, ‘Good bye, golden boy (ob ukhode Surkova)’, Livejournal post, available at: http://dugin.livejournal.com/4237.html

9. Interview with Pavel Zarifullin, 2005.

10. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/who-is-the-bully-the-united-states-has-treated-russia-like-a-loser-since-the-cold-war/2014/03/14/b0868882-aa06-11e3-8599-ce7295b6851c_story.html

11. ‘Zamestitel glavy administratsii prezidenta RF Vladislav Surkov: Putin ukreplyaet gosudarstvo, a ne sebya’, Komsomolskaya Pravda , 28 September 2004.

12. This was published originally by journalist Dmitry Popov on the website Nork.ru; however, the link has since died. Other versions of the speech are on the Evrazia website at: www.evrazia.org/modules.php?name–ews&file=article&sid=2255

13. Interview with Valery Korovin, 2009.

14. According to the Nashi website.

15. Valery Korovin, Nakanune Imperii , Izdatelstvo Evraziyskoe Dvizhenie, 2008.

16. ibid.

17. Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, Russia’s New Nobility , Public Affairs, 2011.

18. Peter Pomerantsev, ‘Putin’s Rasputin’, London Review of Books , 20 October 2011, available at: www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n20/peter-pomerantsev/putins-rasputin

19. Alexander Dugin, The Fourth Political Theory , Arktos, 2012.

20. I do not pretend to understand what Heidegger was saying, or whether Dugin got it right.

21. Dugin, Fourth Political Theory .

22. Konstantin Voronkov, Alexey Navalny: Groza zhulikov i vorov , Eksmo, 2012, p.65.

23. www.gazeta.ru/social/2011/05/16/3619317.shtml

24. ibid.

25. http://zona.media/online/born-dopros-hasis/

26. Thanks to Robert C. Otto for pointing out this article.

27. Edward L. Keenan, ‘Muscovite political folkways’, Russian Review 45:2 (1986), pp.115–81.

28. See, for example, Donald N. Jensen, ‘Are the Kremlin hardliners winning?’, 1 October 2014, available at: http://imrussia.org/en/analysis/world/2041-are-the-kremlin-hardliners-winning. See also a 2014 report by Minchenko Consulting, ‘Vladimir Putin’s Big Government and the “Politburo 2.0”’, available at: http://minchenko.ru/netcat_files/File/Big%20Government%20and%20the%20Politburo%202_0.pdf

29. ‘Putin eto Dugin’: 2007 interview on Russia.ru, published on Evrazia.org website at: www.evrazia.tv/content/putin-eto-dugin-2007; also available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcVwGBsrS_g

30. Tsentr problemnogo analiza i gosudarstvenno-upravlencheskogo proektirovaniya pri Otdelenii obshchestvennykh nauk RAN, tema ‘Rossiya i Zapad: chto razdelyaet?’, 7:16 (2009).

31. Marshall Capital sold its Rostelekom stake in 2013.

32. In 2008, Kılınç was arrested along with a number of other members of the Ergenkon group, allegedly a right-wing cell accused of plotting terror attacks. Asked today about this trip, Dugin is circumspect, saying that he indeed did make the trip on behalf of ‘some officials’ in the Kremlin, but declining to name them.

33. Yigal Liverant, ‘The prophet of the new Russian empire’, Azure 35:5769 (2009), available at: http://azure.org.il/include/print.php?id=483

34. www.mid.ru/brp_4.nsf/sps/17568BA16D3AB9CCC32573E600594626

35. Interview with Modest Kolerov, 2013.

1. Pavel Zarifullin, Russkaya Sakralnaya Geografiya , Limbus Press, 2010.

2. Interview with Alexander Dugin, 2010.

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlY5aZfOgPA

4. Stefan Wagstyl, Charles Clover and Isabel Gorst, ‘Georgia fired first shots in war – report’, Financial Times , 30 September 2009.

5. Thanks to Andreas Umland for pointing this out.

6. www.apn.ru/publications/article22117.htm. Thanks to Robert C. Otto for pointing this article out.

7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVzithktyJY

8. ‘Meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club’, kremlin.ru website, 19 September 2013, available at: http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/19243

9. www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/world/europe/russian-lawmakers-move-to-purge-foreign-influences.html

10. www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/activists-fear-repercussions-of-blasphemy-bill/481657.html

11. Kiselev defended the speech saying, accurately, that the United States bans the donation of blood and organs by gay men.

12. ‘Meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club’.

13. Charles Clover, ‘Clinton vows to thwart new Soviet Union’, Financial Times , 6 December 2012.

14. www.newrepublic.com/article/117692/fascism-returns-ukraine

1. www.rt.com/news/ashton-maidan-snipers-estonia-946/Paet has confirmed that the recording is authentic.

2. Mike Ecke, ‘Russia, Ukraine feud over sniper carnage’, Associated Press, 8 March 2014.

3. ibid.

4. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4OgynH-7Is

5. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IcMmpXhRIw&app=desktop

6. www.colta.ru/articles/society/2393

7. ‘Krym: put na rodinu’, Rossiya 1 Channel, 15 March 2015, available at: http://russia.tv/brand/show/brand_id/59195

8. http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/20796

9. Vladimir Sorokin, ‘Let the past collapse on time’, New York Review of Books , 8 May 2014, available at: www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/05/08/let-the-past-collapse-on-time/

10. http://kremlin.ru/news/2079

11. Oleg Kashin, ‘Iz Kryma v Donbass: Priklyucheniya Igora Strelkova i Alexandra Borodaya’, Slon , 19 May 2014, available at: http://slon.ru/russia/iz_kryma_v_donbass_priklyucheniya_igorya_strelkova_i_aleksandra_borodaya-1099696.xhtml

12. ibid.

13. http://vk.com/duginag?w=wall18631635_3186

14. www.newsru.com/russia/19mar2015/nemtsov.html

15. ‘V strane idet voyna terminov’, Express Gazeta , 3 March 2014.

16. ‘Voyna na Donbasse budet navyazana nam Vashingtonom i Kievom’, Novorosinform.org website, 29 October 2015, available at: www.novorosinform.org/comments/id/828. Thanks to Robert C. Otto for pointing this out.

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