Dugina was a journalist and commentator who shared the hawkish worldview of her father and had been placed under sanctions by the U.S. Dugin has long been one of the most visible proponents of the idea of an imperial Russia at the helm of a “Eurasian” civilization locked in an existential conflict in the West.Īleksandr Dugin at a 2014 rally in Moscow in support of the Russia-backed separatist enclaves of Luhansk and Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. Dugin is a self-educated political philosopher frequently described as “Putin’s brain,” although the actual relationship between the two men is opaque and, some experts on the Kremlin say, often overstated. Putin to launch a harsh new assault in retaliation. Dugin’s circle - have been calling on Mr. It came after a spate of Ukrainian attacks deep behind the front line in Crimea, and as many of the war’s most ardent cheerleaders - including the ultranationalists in Mr. Putin’s efforts to make progress in the war in Ukraine while maintaining a sense of normalcy at home. The rare attack on a member of the pro-Kremlin elite - reminiscent of the fiery assassinations of Moscow’s chaotic 1990s - had the potential to further upend Mr. Dugin and ended up killing his daughter because he took a different car at the last minute.
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Russian state television described the powerful explosion that shattered the windows of nearby homes as a “terrorist act” that had targeted Mr. Dugina was the daughter of Aleksandr Dugin - a self-educated philosopher and long a leading proponent of an aggressive, imperialist Russia who has been urging the Kremlin to escalate its assault on Ukraine.
Putin nor his spokesman had issued a statement as night fell in Moscow. But pro-Kremlin commentators and politicians quickly blamed Ukraine and demanded revenge. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the incident, and no evidence the killing was linked to the war in Ukraine.Ī Ukrainian official disavowed his country’s involvement. The Russian authorities said on Sunday that they had opened a murder investigation into the death a night earlier of Daria Dugina, 29, after the Toyota Land Cruiser she was driving exploded on a highway 20 miles west of Moscow and burst into flames, scattering pieces across the road. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, a brazen attack that injected new uncertainty into the nearly six-month war. Investigative Committee of Russia, via Associated PressĪ car bomb in a Moscow suburb killed the adult daughter of a Russian ultranationalist who helped lay the ideological foundation for President Vladimir V. An image taken from video released by the Investigative Committee of Russia showed investigators working on Sunday at the site of a car explosion outside Moscow.