Novorossiya (New Russia) is a term used by Aleksandr Dugin for territories he envisions as part of a greater Eurasian sphere.
Dugin is a Russian political philosopher known for Neo-Eurasianism, an ultra-nationalist ideology envisioning Russia leading a vast "Eurasian" land empire to counter US-led Atlanticism, promoting a multipolar world with distinct civilizations.
Of course he has sought allies in Islamic and Chinese roots. He is also pro-Hindutva. Dugin has openly praised Hindu nationalism and called for an ideological alliance of “traditional civilizations” led by Russia and India against Western modernity.
He is just a philosopher and hence thought-influencer. His words may not lay down policies and geopolitical strategies immediately, but they echo themes now visible in both countries’ (India and Russia) rhetoric.
Seen through this lens, Putin’s warm welcome in Delhi is not just about dodging Western sanctions. It is also about the comfort of like-minded states that see themselves as guardians of besieged civilisations rather than merely modern nation-states bound by liberal norms.
"In India, the governing ideology of Hindutva performs a parallel role. It recasts India not primarily as a constitutional republic founded in 1947 but as an ancient Hindu civilisation extending back to millennia. Citizenship becomes cultural rather than purely civic, minority protections are recoded as ‘appeasement’, and dissent is increasingly framed as betrayal of the nation’s soul." -
'The Telegraph' (Carol Schaeffer - a journalist in Berlin, Germany, and is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington DC)
Dugin has pushed for a Multipolar World.
His points of argument being -- Russia's role is to help organize non-Western civilizations ( Islamic world, China, India, Africa) into independent power centers, opposing a unipolar world dominated by the US.
Russia is a unique cultural entity, a "planetary historical phenomenon" destined to unify the Eurasian space.
The goal is a Eurasian empire encompassing former Soviet states, Eastern Europe, Iran, India, and more, to counter Western influence.
A rejection of Western liberalism, individualism, and globalism in favor of traditional values and power. Thus, the goal is shape not just India–Russia ties or RIC but the kind of global order the world’s largest democracy helps to build.
In India, the governing ideology of Hindutva performs a parallel role. It recasts India not primarily as a constitutional republic founded in 1947 but as an ancient Hindu civilisation extending back to millennia. Citizenship becomes cultural rather than purely civic, minority protections are recoded as ‘appeasement’, and dissent is increasingly framed as betrayal of the nation’s soul, says Carol in his article.
Born in 1962 in a high-ranking military family, Dugin spent his early years as an anti-communist dissident. He joined various eccentric avant-garde collectives that sprung up during the last two decades of the Soviet Union, where he was known for his flirtation with the politics of Nazi Germany.
He came to national attention in the 1990s as a writer for the far-right newspaper Den. In a 1991 manifesto published in Den, Dugin first laid out his anti-liberal and ultranationalist vision of Russia, a country he said was destined to face off against an individualistic, materialistic west.
“Ukraine as a state has no geopolitical meaning, no particular cultural import or universal significance, no geographic uniqueness, no ethnic exclusiveness,” he wrote around 2022.
“Its certain territorial ambitions represent an enormous danger for all of Eurasia and, without resolving the Ukrainian problem, it is in general senseless to speak about continental politics.”
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