Until now the author of the act is unknown, but already some blame the Ukrainians.
AP | Apparently the attack was against his father since at first he had to handle it
The daughter of a Russian nationalist ideologue often called “Putin’s mastermind” was killed when a bomb exploded in her car outside Moscow, authorities said Sunday.
The explosion occurred on Saturday night in the SUV driven by Daria Dugina, the Moscow region office of the Russian Investigative Committee reported.
The 29-year-old was the daughter of political theorist Alexander Dugin, a prominent proponent of the “Russian world” concept and a vehement supporter of sending Russian troops to Ukraine.
The explosion occurred while Dugina was returning from a cultural festival she had attended with her father. Some Russian media reports quoted witnesses as saying that the vehicle belonged to his father and that he had decided at the last minute to travel in another car.
The vivid and violent incident, unusual for Moscow, is likely to aggravate animosity between Russia and Ukraine.
Dugina expressed views similar to those of her father and appeared as a commentator on the nationalist television channel Tsargrad. “Dasha, like her father, has always been at the forefront of the confrontation with the West,” Tsargrad said Sunday, using the familiar form of her name.
The United States sanctioned her in March for her work as editor-in-chief of United World International (UWI), a website the United States described as a disinformation site.
The sanctions announcement cited a UWI article from this year that claimed Ukraine would “perish” if admitted to NATO.
Dugina’s father promotes Russia as a country of piety, traditional values, and authoritarian leadership, and disdains Western liberal values.
Dugin’s exact ties to President Vladimir Putin are unclear, but the Kremlin frequently echoes the rhetoric in his writings and appearances on Russian state television.
The political theorist helped popularize the concept of “Novorossiya” (New Russia) that Moscow used to justify its annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula and its support for separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine.
No one was immediately identified as a suspect in the blast, but Denis Pushilin, president of the separatist Donetsk People’s Republic, which is a focus of Russia’s fighting in Ukraine, blamed “Ukrainian regime terrorists, who are trying to kill Alexander Dugin”.
Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, denied Ukraine’s involvement, saying on national television: “We are not a criminal state, unlike Russia, and we are definitely not a terrorist state.”
Analyst Sergei Markov, a former adviser to Putin, told the Russian state news agency RIA-Novosti that Alexander Dugin, not his daughter, was likely the intended target.
“It is completely obvious that the most likely suspects are the Ukrainian military intelligence and the Security Service of Ukraine,” he added.
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