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Does Dugin count as a postcolonial author?

>Dugin is a nobody
>Dugin has no pull with the Russian Government or Russian Society

Yeah about that:

>Dugin’s theories are influential, at least in Russia. In 1999, he became special adviser to then-Duma speaker Gennady Seleznev. More important, his seminal work, The Foundations of Geopolitics, in which he promotes the idea of a vast Eurasian empire that looks east, not west, is required reading at the General Staff Academy for every Russian military officer above the rank of colonel.

>[i]n 1997 Dugin had a weekly hour-long radio program called Finis Mundi [End of the World] on the popular music station FM 101. This series, which attracted a cult following of university students, was suspended after sixteen weeks. Dugin later established a second program on a less well-known station, Free Russia.64


>There he led, in 1997–1999, a program called “Geopolitical Review.”65 There have been also reports that Dugin has been giving lectures at the Russian Academy of the General Staff. One commentator mentions cooperation of Dugin with the Ministry of Defense journal Orientiry (Orientations).66 Shenfield noted a relationship between Dugin and the head of the company Russkoe zoloto (Russian Gold), Aleksandr Tarantsev.67

>In 1997, Dugin published the first edition of his, perhaps, most influential work Osnovy Geopolitiki (The Foundations of Geopolitics) that quickly sold out, acquired the status of a seminal study, and became a text-book at various Russian higher education institutions, especially those of the military (Dugin, 1997).68 It is a book that earned him wide attention - not only in the nationalist section of Russia’s elite.

Well sourced as well within the articles themselves
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1879366510000242