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Putinism Is An Ideology And Threat To Russia And World – OpEd – Eurasia Review Tuesday February 12 th , 2019 at 12:50 PM Eurasia Review 1 Share Because there is no book entitled “Putinism,” many have convinced themselves that the Putin regime functions without an ideology, but Vladislav Surkov’s latest essay in Nezavisimaya gazeta shows that it exists and that it is extremely dangerous, according to Russian commentator Aleksandr Skobov. Having read Surkov’s text, Skobov says, he finds that it confirms three theses that the commentator has long insisted on ( kasparov.ru/material.php?id=5C61A758138A8 ). They include the following First, the Putin regime does have an ideology, even though it has not been formulated by “the nominal head of the regime” and is not contained in books labelled as such. Second, “the ideology of the Putin regime is a variety of fascism.” That Putin has not fully implemented his ideology does not change things. A