DISINFO: Aleksandr Dugin's influential books are banned in the West

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DISINFO: Aleksandr Dugin's influential books are banned in the West

SUMMARY

The Russian philosopher Aleksandr Dugin's influential books are banned in the West.

RESPONSE

Recurring pro-Kremlin narrative claiming that in the West the media is censored and controlled and dissidents are silenced.

The claim that Aleksandr Dugin’s books are banned in the West is false. Aleksandr Dugin's books have been translated and published in the West in several languages, including Italian, Spanish, English, French and Greek. It is possible to find Dugin's books for sale in the West in popular sales chains such as Amazon or Fnac.

Aleksandr Dugin is a Russian philosopher and ultranationalist who is one of the people behind Geopolitica.ru, a Russia-based outlet inspired by Dugin's neo-Eurasianist ideology. Read more about Dugin's ideas in our previous analysis here and here.

Read similar cases claiming that In the West there is censorship like in the Soviet Union in Solzhenitsyn times and that Western governments impose censorship and silence dissidents.

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