MOSCOW — The daughter of Alexander Dugin, a hardline
Russian ideologue close to President
Vladimir Putin, has been killed in a car
bombing on Moscow’s outskirts, authorities said on Sunday.
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According to
family members quoted by Russian media, Dugin — a vocal supporter of Kremlin’s
offensive in Ukraine — was the likely target of the blast as his daughter
borrowed his car at the last minute.
Daria Dugina was
killed when a bomb placed in the Toyota Land Cruiser went off as she drove on a
highway near the village of Bolshie Vyzyomy, some 40km outside Moscow, Russia’s
Investigative Committee said in a statement.
Dugina, a
journalist born in 1992 who herself openly supported the offensive, died at the
scene and a homicide investigation has been opened, said the committee, which
probes major crime cases in Russia.
In July Britain
put her on a list of sanctioned Russians for allegedly spreading online
disinformation about Ukraine.
Dugin, 60,
sometimes called “Putin’s Rasputin” or “Putin’s brain”, is an outspoken Russian
ultranationalist intellectual.
He has long
advocated the unification of Russian-speaking territories in a vast new Russian
empire and wholeheartedly supported Moscow’s operation in Ukraine.
He was put on a
Western sanctions list after Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, a move he also
backed.
There was no
immediate claim of responsibility for the bombing.
The head of one
of
Ukraine’s breakaway separatist regions blamed the blast on Kyiv authorities.
“The Ukrainian
regime terrorists tried to liquidate Alexander Dugin, but blew up his
daughter,” DNR chief Denis Pushilin wrote on Telegram.
A Ukrainian
presidential adviser, Mykhailo Podolyak denied that Kyiv authorities were
behind the bombing.
“Ukraine surely
doesn’t have anything to do with yesterday’s explosion because we’re not a
criminal state,” he said in televised remarks.
Russian foreign
ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on Telegram that “if the Ukrainian
theory is confirmed ... and it must be verified by competent authorities, it
will amount to state terrorism on the part of the Kyiv regime.”
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