A monarchist media oligarch is set to teach history at Russia’s top university. He believes his country is the heir to the Roman Empire. (meduza.io)

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Konstantin Malofeev, the Russian far-right media oligarch whose Orthodox Christian news network Tsargrad TV promotes ultranationalist and monarchist ideas, is set to become a lecturer at the prestigious Moscow State University (MSU), a source at the school told Meduza.

His course, The History of Empire, has already appeared in the university’s course calendar, which also lists someone with Malofeev’s initials and surname as the instructor.

While we don’t know for certain what the media mogul will say in his lectures, he has spoken and written extensively about his views on empires — namely in his quasi-historical “Empire” book series, the third volume of which was published in 2022. He explained the book’s premise in an interview with far-right ideologue Alexander Dugin that same year.

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