UK Sanctions Russian World Ideologist Aleksandr Dugin

The Unit­ed King­dom has sanc­tioned Alek­san­dr Dug­in, ide­ol­o­gist of the Russ­ian world con­cept. On 9 Decem­ber 2025, RBC Ukraine report­ed that the UK imposed sanc­tions on sev­en Russ­ian indi­vid­u­als and enti­ties, includ­ing Dug­in and the Cen­ter for Geopo­lit­i­cal Exper­tise, which he found­ed. The arti­cle begins:

On Tues­day, Decem­ber 9, the Unit­ed King­dom imposed sanc­tions on sev­en Russ­ian indi­vid­u­als and enti­ties. The list includ­ed Alek­san­dr Dug­in, the ide­ol­o­gist of the “Russ­ian world,” accord­ing to the UK sanc­tions list. The sanc­tions tar­get Dug­in and the Cen­ter for Geopo­lit­i­cal Exper­tise, which he found­ed. They also cov­er pro­pa­gan­da out­lets Euro­more, Golos, the Telegram chan­nel Rybar, and its founder, Mikhail Zvinchuk. Addi­tion­al­ly, the Russ­ian Foun­da­tion for the Sup­port and Pro­tec­tion of the Rights of Com­pa­tri­ots Liv­ing Abroad was sanctioned.

Read more: https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/uk-targets-russian-world-ideologist-dugin-1765305893.html

Key Points

• Pro­pa­gan­dist Alek­san­dr Dug­in, con­sid­ered one of the key ide­ol­o­gists of the Russ­ian world, for over ten years in numer­ous speech­es, pub­li­ca­tions, and arti­cles, denied the exis­tence of Ukraine as a sov­er­eign state and called for its armed seizure by Russ­ian forces.
• At the start of Rus­si­a’s full-scale inva­sion, Dug­in was among the first to pub­licly sup­port the armed forces of Rus­sia and jus­ti­fy Russ­ian war crimes against Ukraine, open­ly pro­mot­ing ideas of mass phys­i­cal destruc­tion of Ukraini­ans and attacks on civil­ian infrastructure.
• In August 2022, a car in the Moscow region car­ry­ing Darya Dug­i­na, Alek­san­dr Dug­in’s daugh­ter, who ful­ly shared her father’s world­view, was blown up, with Russ­ian media claim­ing Ukraine was involved, but the Office of the Pres­i­dent denied it, and Zelen­skyy stat­ed no involvement.
• Sanc­tions include freez­ing all assets in the UK and a trav­el ban for Dug­in, Cen­ter for Geopo­lit­i­cal Exper­tise, pro­pa­gan­da out­lets Euro­more and Golos, Telegram chan­nel Rybar, and founder Mikhail Zvinchuk, and the Russ­ian Foun­da­tion for Sup­port and Pro­tec­tion of Rights of Com­pa­tri­ots Liv­ing Abroad.

Aleksandr Dugin and Russian Influence Operations: Putin’s Ideologist Targets the West

Dug­in, the Russ­ian polit­i­cal philoso­pher known as “Putin’s brain,” serves as a linch­pin in Rus­si­a’s hybrid war­fare strat­e­gy, blend­ing ultra-nation­al­ist ide­ol­o­gy with glob­al influ­ence cam­paigns. In a March 2025 CNN inter­view, Dug­in pub­licly endorsed Don­ald Trump’s poli­cies, declar­ing that “Trump­ists and the fol­low­ers of Trump will under­stand much bet­ter what Rus­sia is, who Putin is and the moti­va­tions of our politics”—an endorse­ment like­ly autho­rized by the Krem­lin to empha­size polit­i­cal divi­sions in West­ern adversaries.

Dug­in’s “Fourth Polit­i­cal The­o­ry” rejects lib­er­al­ism while envi­sion­ing Rus­sia as the cen­ter of a Eurasian empire oppos­ing West­ern influ­ence. His 1997 work Foun­da­tions of Geopol­i­tics report­ed­ly became required read­ing at Russ­ian mil­i­tary acad­e­mies, advo­cat­ing alliances and ter­ri­to­r­i­al expan­sion to counter Atlanti­cist pow­ers. The ide­ol­o­gy has attract­ed sup­port from far-right move­ments across Europe, includ­ing Ger­many’s Nation­al Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty, Gold­en Dawn in Greece, and France’s Nation­al Rally.

The Dug­in net­work extends through insti­tu­tion­al chan­nels. His daugh­ter Darya Dug­i­na served as chief edi­tor of Unit­ed World Inter­na­tion­al, a pro­pa­gan­da plat­form the US Trea­sury sanc­tioned in March 2022 for elec­tion inter­fer­ence and pro­mot­ing nar­ra­tives that Ukraine would “per­ish” if admit­ted to NATO. The 2022 US sanc­tions also tar­get­ed Dug­in’s web­site Geopo­lit­i­ca as part of Rus­si­a’s glob­al dis­in­for­ma­tion infra­struc­ture. In Octo­ber 2022, Dug­in met with Iran’s ambas­sador to Rus­sia to dis­cuss “oppo­si­tion to uni­lat­er­al­ism by the Unit­ed States” and “the fight against inter­na­tion­al impe­ri­al­ism,” demon­strat­ing his role in forg­ing anti-West­ern coalitions.

The Inter­na­tion­al Move­ment of Rus­sophiles, launched in March 2023 with Russ­ian For­eign Min­is­ter Sergey Lavrov and oli­garch Kon­stan­tin Mal­ofeev in atten­dance, insti­tu­tion­al­izes Dug­in’s influ­ence oper­a­tions under the guise of cul­tur­al con­ser­vatism. At its found­ing con­gress, Dug­in spoke of “the alter­na­tive civ­i­liza­tion that we have to build” while fig­ures like Steven Sea­gal pro­mot­ed pro-Krem­lin nar­ra­tives to glob­al audiences.

Exter­nal References:

• ‘Putin’s brain’: Alek­san­dr Dug­in, the Russ­ian ultra-nation­al­ist who has endorsed Don­ald Trump — The Conversation
• Ultra­na­tion­al­ist Alek­san­dr Dug­in, ‘Putin’s brain,’ endors­es Trump — Asia Times
• Alek­san­dr Dug­in, Vladimir Putin, and Don­ald Trump — Skeptic

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