A car driven by Daria, the daughter of the “ideologue of Putin”Alexander Dugin, exploded in the village of Velyki Vyazomi, on the outskirts of Moscow.
“A Toyota Land Cruiser Prado flew through the air in the village of Velyki Vyazomy, on the outskirts of Moscow. the driver diedreported the security forces. According to some media, Alexander Dugin’s daughter, Daria, is the person killed in the explosion,” the Tass agency reported.
Witnesses to the explosion, which occurred at 9:45 p.m. local time, said that a strong deflagration shook the vehicle in the middle of a road, scattering debris throughout the area. Next, the vehicle hit a fence before being completely engulfed by flamesaccording to videos and photos taken at the scene of the events, reported the RT news network.
Numerous images and videos of the place of the explosion circulate on Twitter. For some, Alexander Dugin himself was the target.
According to the RT channel, It would be the same Russian ultranationalist philosopher and political scientist, the man with his hands in his hair that can be seen in the video recorded at the scene of the explosion..
According to Daily Mailciting Russian sources, the two, who were returning from a public event, had to travel in the same carbut Dugin decided, at the last minute, to get into another vehicle.
Daria was 30 years old. He was dedicated to journalism, philosophy and political scienceand in July 2022 it was included in the lists of britain sanctions against Russian personalities in retaliation for the invasion of Ukraine.
Police reports were not known in principle, nor was the origin of the explosion that ended the life of the woman. According to the Russian state media RT, the head of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Denis Pushilin, denounced that behind the attack are “terrorists of the Ukrainian regime” who were trying to kill Dugin.
Who is Dugin?
Dugin, father of the victim, is a philosopher who took up the tradition of Russian nationalism to support the presidency of Vladimir Putin; he elaborated a theory of international relations that warns about the growth potential of Eurasia in a multipolar world.
Dugin’s intellectual influence on the Russian leader is well known to scholars of the post-Soviet period, who sometimes refer to Dugin as “Putin’s brain”.
Dugin is 60 years old and is a He has been a prominent figure in Europe’s “new right” for nearly three decades, but his work is also well known to the “alt-right” in the United States.
Sometimes described as the “most dangerous philosopher in the world”, Dugin also envisions a new, multipolar global order, in which Russia would play a leading role.
Some point out that Dugin was the real mastermind behind Putin’s 2014 annexation of Crimea. He also argued years ago that military intervention in eastern Ukraine was necessary “to save Russia’s moral authority.”
Dugin visited Argentina several times, where he presented his ideas at conferences, in which he questioned liberalism as a political philosophy, which he characterized as the expression of a new type of totalitarianism.
ANSA and Telam agencies