Exiled Russian scholar on why Dugin is no philosopher, and Russia no defender of ‘traditional values’

Exiled Russian scholar on why Dugin is no philosopher, and Russia no defender of ‘traditional values’

In recent years, the Kremlin has sought to cast Russia as a bastion of so-called traditional values, positioning itself in stark contrast to what it describes as the morally decaying West. Yet beneath this veneer, a more complex reality persists. As exiled Russian philosopher Alexey Zhavoronkov told the Kyiv Independent, “conservative rhetoric and concepts are employed to mask a different reality.”Within the framework of traditional conservative…