Daria Dúguina, daughter of the leader of the neo-Eurasianist movement, Alexandr Dugin, one of the close allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin, died when a bomb exploded in the car she was driving, the Russian Investigative Committee (CIR) reported.
According to the CIR, the explosion occurred last night around 9:00 p.m. Moscow time, when Dúguina, 29, a journalist and political scientist, was driving along a highway on the outskirts of Moscow.
The leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, Denis Pushilin, directly accused the kyiv government of being behind the attack.
“In an attempt to eliminate Alexandr Dugin, the terrorists of the Ukrainian regime have killed his daughter,” he wrote on Telegram.
For his part, Russian senator Andréi Klishas described the attack as an “enemy attack” and demanded that its material and intellectual authors be brought to justice.
The 60-year-old philosopher Alexander Duguin, considered one of the ideologues who has most influenced Kremlin politics in recent years, has been subject to US sanctions since 2015 for “actions or policies that threaten peace, security , stability or sovereignty or territorial integrity of Ukraine”.
In March 2022, after the beginning of the Russian “special military operation” in Ukraine, his deceased daughter was also sanctioned by the US for her work as director of the United World International (UWI) website, described by Washington as “a media disinformation”.
Ukraine denies authorship
An adviser to President Zelensky denied this Sunday that kyiv is involved in the attack that yesterday cost the life of the daughter of Russian ultra-nationalist Alexandr Dugin.
“I stress that Ukraine has nothing to do with this, because we are not a criminal state like the Russian Federation and we are not a terrorist state,” Mikhailo Podolyak, one of Zelensky’s advisers, said in televised remarks.
On the contrary, he indicated that Russia has begun to “disintegrate internally” and that various political groups are beginning to face each other in a struggle for power.
As part of this ideological redistribution, “informative pressure” on society is growing and the war in Ukraine is being used as an escape route, while nationalist sectors are becoming more radicalized, Podolyak said.