Moscow, Russia (CNN) – Daria Dugina, the daughter of Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin, was killed Saturday when the car she was traveling in exploded near the Bolshei Vyazimy district of Moscow, TASS news agency reported, citing Andrei Krasnov, head of the “Russian Horizon” movement.
Krasnov told the Russian state news agency TASS on Sunday that Daria Dugina died following her car caught fire following an explosion and lost control. immediately.
Pictures of the followingmath of the explosion began circulating on Russian social media on Saturday, with what appeared to be a burning car on the side of the road and debris from pieces of cars scattered throughout the surrounding area, while CNN is not able to independently verify the images.
Alexander Dugin is a Russian far-right writer and idealist who is credited with being the architect or “spiritual guide” of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. He is claimed to have great influence over Russian President Vladimir Putin and is often described as “Putin’s brain”.
Daria Dugina was born in 1992 and studied philosophy at Moscow State University, according to TASS.
In March 2022, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned Dogina for contributing to an article on the United World International (UWI) website suggesting that Ukraine would be “perished” if accepted into NATO.
