PublishedAugust 22, 2022, 2:57 PM
RussiaMoscow accuses Ukraine of killing ‘Putin’s mastermind’ daughter
The Russian authorities are convinced that kyiv is behind the death of Daria Douguina, daughter of Alexandre Douguine, killed on Saturday in the explosion of his car.
The 30-year-old was driving on a road near Moscow when her car exploded.
AFP
The Russian security services (FSB) on Monday accused Ukrainian “special services” of having killed the daughter of a reputed ideologue close to the Kremlin. Daria Duguina died in a car explosion near Moscow on Saturday, Russian news agencies reported. The young woman was driving on a road near the village of Bolchiye Viaziomy, regarding forty kilometers from Moscow, when she was killed.
Journalist and political scientist born in 1992, she was the daughter of Alexander Dougin, an ultra-nationalist ideologist and writer promoting an expansionist doctrine and fierce supporter of the Russian offensive in Ukraine. “The murder was prepared and committed by Ukrainian special services,” the FSB said in a statement quoted by Russian agencies.
Ukraine denies
According to the same source, the car driven by Daria Douguina was trapped by a woman of Ukrainian nationality born in 1979, identified by the FSB as Natalia Vovk, who arrived in Russia in July with her minor daughter, born in 2010. Still according to the FSB , this person had notably rented an apartment in the building where Douguina lived and she had gone to a cultural festival on Saturday where the journalist and political scientist was also present.
According to the FSB, this Ukrainian woman then fled to Estonia with her daughter. Questioned on Saturday by Russian media believing that the target of the attack was in fact Alexander Dougin, Ukraine had denied Sunday any involvement in the death of Dougina.
“Ukraine certainly has nothing to do with the explosion (on Saturday), because we are not a criminal state,” said an adviser to the Ukrainian presidency, Mikhaïlo Podoliak.
Prohibited works
Promoter of “Eurasism”, a doctrine advocating an alliance between Europe and Asia under Russian leadership, Alexandre Douguine, who influences part of the French far right, has been targeted since 2014 by EU sanctions. taken in the wake of the annexation of the Ukrainian Crimean peninsula by Russia. In recent years, Ukraine has banned several of his works, including “Ukraine. My war. Geopolitical Diary” and “Eurasian Revenge of Russia”.
Dougin, dubbed by some media “Putin’s brain”, is sometimes presented as being close to the Russian president. But many observers relativize his supposed influence in the Kremlin.
(AFP)
