Getting through to the Kremlin: an important online article by Alexander Dugin

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I am pleased to inform the Community that my efforts to bring advice on changing direction in the Ukraine war to the attention of President Putin have just received an unexpected and quite remarkable boost from Russia’s court philosopher, Alexander Dugin.

On his own dzen.ru page (Russian equivalent of Google), Dugin has just published an article entitled «Любопытный аналитик и интересные наблюдения» (A curious analyst and interesting observations).

https://dzen.ru/a/aa2VmfMfGw2qRZNG?ysclid=mmiigf1v40340242948 (in Russian, but, of course, you can run it through your internet translator Deep L on linguee.com)

The article summarizes my thinking and makes specific reference to what I said last week during interviews with ‘Judging Freedom’ and the Glenn Diesen youtube channel. As I have noted in passing, both of these interviews were reposted on the rutube.ru in Russian voice over within hours of their being posted in the English original on youtube.com. The Diesen interview in particular has done very well in Russia where its 8,000 plus views as of this morning is equal to this little channel’s number of subcribers.

Among other points, Dugin restates my points about how the US attack on Iran has shocked Russia’s foreign policy establishment, how there is no longer any faith in negotiating with Trump, how Putin should change course on the war in Ukraine from ‘gently, gently’ to bombing the Kiev regime to ashes. Dugin has rounded the corners a bit to avoid giving offense to Vladimir Vladimirovich but the salient and, shall we say ‘positive’ recommendations in my interviews are accurately reproduced.

Let us just remember that Alexander Dugin is the father of the pro-Russia, anti-Kiev journalist Darya Dugina who was assassinated in August 2022 by Ukrainian special forces in a bomb attack on her car that more likely was intended to kill her father. She and he have been lionized by the patriotic Russian press and Dugin is therefore untouchable for Putin and his minions. We can be sure that his article on my interviews has reached into the Kremlin and, who knows, may help build pressure for a change of course in Russian conduct of the war which is absolutely essential if Russia is to avoid the fate of Iran.

©Gilbert Doctorow, 2026

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Gilbert Doctorow's latest book, "War Diaries. The Russia-Ukraine War, 2022-2023" is a unique contribution to literature on the war thanks to the author's reports on the Russian home front written during his periodic visits to St Petersburg at a time when Russia no longer issued visas and nearly all Western journalists had left the country. Doctorow's two-volume "Memoirs of a Russianist" published in 2020 also constitutes a category of its own, consisting largely of diary entries rather than reminiscences written decades later.. Volume 2 focuses on the community of 50,000 expatriate managers working and living in Moscow during the 1990s, about which none of his peers has yet to write. Gilbert Doctorow is a professional Russia watcher and actor in Russian affairs going back to 1965. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College (1967), a past Fulbright scholar, and holder of a Ph.D. with honors in history from Columbia University (1975). After completing his studies, Mr. Doctorow pursued a business career focused on the USSR and Eastern Europe. For twenty-five years he worked for US and European multinationals in marketing and general management with regional responsibility. From 1998-2002, Doctorow served as the Chairman of the Russian Booker Literary Prize in Moscow. During the 2010-2011 academic year, he was a Visiting scholar of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. Mr. Doctorow is a long-time resident of Brussels.

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