What annoys me about such pieces is that they are a repeat of the 1990s pro-Yeltsin propaganda with a different spin, The trick is to take some fringe group (skinheads today, National Bolsheviks back in the 1990s -- note how the NBP is getting spun as a group of plucky opposition democrats nowadays. Then you take that group and magnify its power, and link it with prominent people/movements to want to discredit. In the 1990s, it was the Red-Brown Horde which supposedly would sweep to power if Yeltsin didn't get reelected, and the mysteriously vanished into thin air after he was. Nowadays that Russia is back on its feet and pursuing its own interests, you have to link these people somehow with the regime or with people prominent in some way who advocate a strong Russia (which would be 90% of the population).
Thus we get the phantasmagoric linking of Kara-Murza, Dugin, and neo-Nazis, who have nothing in common other than the belief that Russia is not going to be subsumed in the Western world and so should strike out on its own. If you are in favor of a strong Russia, you must be an ethnic Russian ultranationalist. If you want to oppose the West, you are an "imperialist." That is the rhetorical "logic." The "conspiracy theory" they all share is that the West, specifically the United States, wants Russia to be weak, which is not a conspiracy theory, it is true.
The whole linking of Russian nationalism and active pursuit of furthering Great Power status is weird anyway. Russia is a multiethnic country. It is not a nation-state. Kara-Murza (this guy: http://www.kara-murza.ru/index.htm )is a Tatar. Anatoly "Russia should be a liberal empire" Chubais is a Jew. The Eurasianist Primakov is also a Jew. Russian ultranationalists, Tatars, and Jews are not noted for along. Talk about a category mistake.
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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