On March 11, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) added Russian academic Alexander Dugin to its roster of "individuals and entities to be sanctioned over Russia's interference in Ukraine."

This decree means that any property belonging to Dugin that is within reach of the Soyuz (aka the country formerly known as the United States of America) is subject to forfeiture, and US citizens who do business with the professor will face criminal prosecution under the Trading with the Enemy Act.

What did Dugin – a so-called "mad professor" who will inevitably be portrayed on film by Russell Crowe — do that merits this designation? He holds no government position, nor is he the chieftain of a private criminal syndicate. Dugin, an outspoken Russian nationalist, has been depicted as a species of terrorist – the intellectual leader of a "revisionist" movement in Russia.