1. Their projects included the discovery of three pulsar stars, research into the evolution of guenon monkeys and the use of gene–silencing techniques in microscopic worms.

2. Dugin is interesting as an anti–liberal thinker in that, while most nationalist writers remain within the limits of traditional Russian anti–Westernism, Dugin‘s writings and comments are informed by his intimate knowledge of a broad spectrum of non–Russian forms of anti–liberalism, including West European integral traditionalism (such as René Guenon, Julius Evola and Claudio Mutti), European and U.S. geopolitics (Alfred Mahen, Halford Mackinder and Karl Haushofer), Germany‘s so–called "Conservative Revolution" (including Carl Schmitt, Ernst Jßnger, Arthur Moeller van den Bruck) and the francophone, neo–Gramscian "New Right" (such as Alain de Benoist and Robert Steuckers). He generally, however, downplays the influence of these writers on his thinking, instead using the term "neo–Eurasianism," an explicit reference to a reputed Russian emigre intellectual movement of the 1'20s and 1'30s.