The daughter of Aleksándr Dugin, Putin’s “ideologue”, dies in an attack in Moscow

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The family believes the target was the philosopher. Ukraine denies any responsibility in the attack: “We are not a terrorist state”

Daria Duguina, daughter of the philosopher Aleksándr Duguin, advisor to the Russian president, died this Saturday night in an attack on the outskirts of Moscow when the SUV she was driving exploded, allegedly due to a bomb attached to the vehicle. The first investigations suggest that the device was directed against her father, a close collaborator of Vladimir Putin and staunch defender of the invasion of Ukraine, since the philosopher and her daughter regularly used the same vehicle. The bomb would be homemade, but powerful enough that the car would be engulfed in flames immediately.

According to Andrei Krasnov, leader of the Russky Gorizont movement, Daria was driving at high speed when the explosion occurred. The car “flew to the opposite side of the road” and became a ball of fire. The young woman would have died instantly. Later images broadcast on television show coroners and members of the security forces collecting remains of the SUV and inspecting the place. Other recordings show the desperation of Aleksándr Duguin at the scene, with his hands on his head. Apparently, the philosopher and his daughter had attended a festival in the afternoon at a farm located several kilometers from the capital. The two were supposed to return to Moscow together, but Aleksánder finally returned with other friends in a second car that was traveling behind Daria’s.

This fact reinforces the idea that the bomb was directed against Putin’s adviser and that the murderers would have taken advantage of their attendance at the festival to plant the device. Daria Dugina was 30 years old and studied Philosophy at Moscow State University. Among her activities, she worked as a political commentator. Like her father, she had been sanctioned by the United Kingdom and the United States for “providing support or promoting policies to destabilize Ukraine.”

Aleksándr Dugin is the leader of the so-called Eurasian Movement, which promotes the creation of a great world power through the union of Russia and the former Soviet republics. A staunch conservative nationalist, he is considered to be Putin’s ideologue since his return to the presidency in 2012, to the extent that he is known as the Russian president’s ‘Rasputin’. He is also noted as the “spiritual guide” of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Already in 2015 he was sanctioned by the United States for alleged participation in the Russian annexation of Crimea. His collaborators have no doubt that the attack is due to his political and “patriotic” position

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