Russia: Daughter of ideologue close to Vladimir Putin dies in car bomb explosion

daughter Alexander DuginA Russian ideologue close to the Kremlin died last Saturday when a car he was traveling in exploded near Moscow, the Russian Investigative Committee said on Sunday.

At the moment of the explosion Daria Dugina, journalist and political scientist, defender of the Russian offensive in Ukraine, circulated in the area of ​​the city of Bolshie Vyazemy, about 40 km from Moscow. According to him, he was driving a Toyota Land Cruiser.

The explosion was caused by an explosive device planted in the vehicle, and everything indicates that “the crime was planned and ordered,” investigators said.

The goal was different.

A young woman born in 1992 “died at the scene” of the explosion, the committee responsible for criminal investigations in the city said. Russia and filed a murder case.

The purpose of the attack was Alexander Duginpointed out by people close to the family, who were quoted by Russian press agencies, because, according to them, Daria Dugina borrowed her father’s car at the last moment.

Dugen, 60-year-old ultra-nationalist intellectual and writer, neo-Eurasian theorist, an alliance between Europe D Asia led by Russia, since 2014, after the Russian annexation of Crimea, subject to sanctions by the European Union.

Dugin, sometimes referred to as “Putin’s mastermind” or “Putin’s Rasputin,” is a figure who for years advocated the unification of Russian-speaking territories and fully supported the military operation launched by Moscow in Ukraine in February.

In recent years, several of his books have been banned in Ukraine, in particular “Ukraine. My war. Geopolitical Diary” and “Russia’s Eurasian Revenge”.

In turn, Daria Dugina has been on the list of Russian citizens who have been sanctioned by the UK for allegedly spreading “disinformation about Ukraine” on the Internet since July.

Nobody claimed responsibility for the attack.

Leader Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR), self-proclaimed pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine Denis Pushilin, on Sunday blamed Ukrainian forces for the murder of Daria Dugina.

“The terrorists of the Ukrainian regime tried to eliminate Alexander Dugin, but killed his daughter,” Pushilin wrote in his Telegram account.

Similarly, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zayarova wrote on Telegram that “if the Ukrainian trace is confirmed (…) and this must be verified by the competent authorities, it will be about state terrorism by the Kyiv regime.” (AFP)