Dugin headed the Ivan Ilyin Higher Political School at the Russian State University for the Humanities

Far-right philosopher Alexander Dugin has been appointed director of the Ivan Ilyin Higher Political School, created at the Russian State University for the Humanities.

Back in January, Dugin was mentioned in this position in a release on the university website, but the appointment was not widely advertised, and in April the conservative publication “Russian Idea” and the telegram channel “Antifa ru” drew attention to him.

The regulations on the formation of the school stated that its goal is to develop a new approach to teaching, “aimed at shaping the worldview of students based on Russian civilizational identity and traditional Russian spiritual and moral values.”

As “Important Stories”notes , the head of the ideological department of the Orthodox TV channel “Tsargrad” Mikhail Tyurenkov wrote back in December that the school should “direct the activities of vice-rectors for educational work in the right direction.”

Ivan Ilyin is an emigrant religious philosopher who welcomed the Nazis' rise to power in 1933. “I categorically refuse to evaluate the events of the last three months in Germany from the point of view of German Jews <…> What did Hitler do? He stopped the process of Bolshevisation in Germany and thereby rendered the greatest service to all of Europe,” Ilyin wrote in the article “National Socialism. New spirit."

Later, in 1938, he left Germany for Switzerland, where he lived until his death. Vladimir Putin called Ilyin one of the philosophers closest to him.

Dugin, as “Important Stories” reminds, himself criticized Ilyin, including for “an almost caricatured attempt to create a bravura version of Russian nationalism.”