I have now a research project focused on ideological inspirations of Russias foreign policy and today I would like to present in an extremely shortened way the link between Neo-Eurasianism, Alexander Dugin, who is its nowadays prophet and brain, and Russian intervention in Ukraine.I will start with a little bit of history. Here is a statement made by former Russian president Boris Yeltsin in a press-conference after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. In order to fill this gap he lunched the so called operation Russian Idea a public appeal addressed to intellectuals which aimed to create a new Russian Idea capable of providing a coherent ideological foundation for Russians internal and especially external policy. In the following years, a former marginal and extremist professor became gradually one of the main intellectuals figures in Russians establishment and his ideas integrated in Russians identity. Alexander Dugin is a Russian philosopher and political activist. He is an engaging figureprolific, radical, bearded, equally at home in university seminars and posing with tanks in eastern Ukraine. He comes from a family of Soviet Military Intelligence officers. An anticommunist in the 1980s, he worked closely with the remnants of the Communist Party after the fall of the Soviet Union. In the mid-1990s, he became involved with National Bolshevism. His works became main textbooks in Russian military academies, and many IR departments in Russian universities integrated his thought in their programs. He was adviser to many officials from the military and political elite, including Putin. Foreign Affairs Magazine described him as Putins Brain. By the end of the 1990s he organized his views into a geostrategic ideology and a complex political metaphysics known respectively as Neo-Eurasianism and Fourth Political Theory. Further I will focus just on Neo-Eurasianism. Neo-Eurasianism is a particular tradition of theorising Russias identity and place in the world a historical account which present Russia as the heartland of a hypothetically Eurasian civilization antagonized by the Western bloc at a more instrumental level it is an ideology which seeks to re-establish Soviet borders and Russian influence in Europe by replacing communism with the idea of a common Eurasian identity which former soviet republics share. Eurasia is a special geographical space and civilizational zone which incorporates the legacy of the former Russian Empire and then Soviet Union. The most important historical task of Eurasianism,Dugin states, is to provide the world with a common platform for the struggle against Atlanticism. In the context of the supposed incompatibility between Western and Russian Idea in global politics, Dugin writes: the battle for the world rule of [ethnic] Russians" has not ended and Russia remains "the staging area of a new anti-bourgeois, anti-American revolution." The Eurasian Empire will be constructed "on the fundamental principle of the common enemy: the rejection of Atlanticism, strategic control of the USA, and the refusal to allow liberal values to dominate us. (Foundations of Geopolitics, Alexander Dugin, 1996)In the same work (by the way, the book was co-authored by General Nikolai Klokotov of the General Staff Academy, Dugin writes about Ukraine. Remember, it was written in 1996:Ukraine's further existence of the unit is inadmissible. Thisterritory should be divided into several areas corresponding range of realitiesgeopolitical and ethnic minorities. Direct annexation of Crimea to Russia will stir extremely negative reaction and will createproblems integrating the peninsula in the Russian system. However, to leave Crimea to a "sovereign Ukraine" is impossible because this will create a direct threat to Russia's security. This is just one example of a more ample set of empirical evidences which suggest that Putins foreign policy is not just a matter of five-years policy-making plan, but is a coherent, antagonistic, dangerous ideology anchored in Russian history and identity. Conclusions