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| Daria Dugina killed in the car bomb attack |
Daria Dugina was not a very popular figure in Russia, but she and her father were often seen expressing anti-Ukrainian and anti-Western views on Russian media.
Daria's father, Alexander Dugina, is often called 'Putin's mind' and has long expressed anti-Western and extreme nationalistic views, leading him to establish himself as a prominent philosopher in Moscow. I have been successful and wield considerable influence in government circles without any official status.
Alexander, who is considered the founder of the so-called Eurasian movement, is very popular in Moscow political circles for his staunch nationalist views.
Dugin's philosophy on global geopolitics is that Russia should stand up to Iran and anti-European forces in the face of US global hegemony. The general perception in Russia is that Dugina was the real target of last week's attack in Moscow. In which unfortunately his daughter was killed.
Dugina was going home in the same car, which he replaced at the last moment with his daughter's car.
Who was Daria?
Daria Dugina was a strong supporter of her father's ideas and was often seen promoting these ideas on TV and YouTube channels in Russia.
In line with her father's thinking, she often spoke of the annexation of regions that had been part of Russia in the past, including the Eurasian regions, Eastern Slavs, Ukraine, and Belarus.
Born in 1992, Daria studied philosophy at Moscow State University.
According to Russian media, her teachers said that Daria was a very capable and intelligent student.
Daria also briefly attended the University of Bordeaux in France in 2012 and 2013, where she focused on the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, writing a thesis on Plato and doing post-graduate research on Plato.
Meadows, an independent website in Russia, spoke to various friends of Daria. Her friends say she was a warm and open-hearted person. Along with these friends she was interested in electric music. Some of them were part of the same band in which Daria participated as a flute player.
It is a murder that has shaken Russia.
How did Daria die?
Investigators say the explosives were planted in the car of Alexander Dugina, who was on his way home after attending an event outside Moscow but switched vehicles at the last minute with his daughter.
When Dugin's daughter Darya was leaving for home in the car, the explosives planted under the car exploded and the car caught fire.
Russian officials have said that the possible target in this attack was Daria's father, Alexander Dugina.
Dugina and his daughter Daria were special guests at a festival in Zakharov State, where he also gave a lecture.
Russia on Monday directly accused Ukraine of planning the assassination.
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said it had solved the case and that Ukrainian intelligence services had hired a woman who arrived in Russia with her young daughter in mid-July.
Ukraine's denial
However, Ukraine has denied involvement in the attack.
Ukrainian officials have denied the allegations, saying the attack was related to Russia's internal political struggle.
"Ukraine, of course, has nothing to do with this, because we are not a criminal state, which is the Russian Federation, and we are not a terrorist state at all," said Mykhailo Podoliak, an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The FSB alleges that the alleged assailant rented an apartment in the same building where Dogina lived to get information about Dugina's life.
The security agency also said the suspects used a Mini Cooper car with three different license plates at different times.
According to the FSB, the suspect fled to Estonia after the blast.
Russia's security service, the FSB, reported that the attack was carried out by a Ukrainian citizen who arrived in the country in July. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a Telegram post that any link to Ukraine was found. That would be tantamount to 'state terrorism'.
Speculations
According to the The Time News Today's Russian Service, Dugina's death sparked a wave of speculation in Russia about the background to the crime and its consequences.
Former Russian MP Ilya Ponomarev said on Sunday that anti-Putin internal groups were behind the murder.
On the other hand, those who disagree with Dugin's thinking have expressed their suspicions of the involvement of Russian secret services but have not been able to provide any evidence for this.
After the explosion in Dugina's car, the first question asked by Russian analysts was whether her father was the target.
Such incidents, especially the series of explosions and attacks on Russian territories along the Ukrainian border and on the Crimean peninsula, are certainly a cause for concern for Moscow authorities. Crimea was annexed by Russia in 2014.
The Kremlin has always touted how Vladimir Putin brought stability and stability to Russia during the tumultuous 1990s, when car bombings and massacres abounded.
This car bomb attack in the Russian capital negates these claims.
Dugin's An ultra-nationalist, anti-Western philosophy has become the dominant political ideology in Russia and has helped shape President Putin's expansionist foreign policy, particularly in Ukraine.
Now the focus will be on who was behind the attack. The self-proclaimed, pro-Russian "Donetsk People's Republic" "head" Denis Pushilin has already blamed Ukraine. He has written on Telegram: 'Insolent villain! Ukrainian government terrorists, trying to assassinate Alexander Dugina, blow up his daughter... in a car. We commemorate Daria, she is a true daughter of Russia.
Although he does not hold any official position, Dugina's father is a close ally of the Russian president and has been called 'Putin's Rasputin'.
Dugina was a prominent journalist who openly supported the invasion of Ukraine.
Earlier this year, he was banned by US and British authorities. He was accused of being involved in spreading 'disinformation' on the internet about the Russian attack.
In May, Dugena described the war as a "clash of civilizations" in an interview.
The United States imposed sanctions on Alexander Dugina in 2015 over his alleged involvement in Russia's annexation of Crimea.
His writings are credited with having a profound influence on Vladimir Putin's worldview, and he is considered one of the leading intellectuals of the ultra-nationalist ideology espoused by many in the Kremlin.
For some time, Dugina has been calling on Moscow to present itself more aggressively on the world stage and has supported Russian military action in Ukraine.
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