Daughter of Putin ally Alexander Dugin killed in
car bomb in Moscow – reports
Darya Dugina had been due to travel with her
ultranationalist father and reports suggest he may have been the target
Martin
Farrer
Sun 21 Aug
2022 04.46 BST
The
daughter of an ultranationalist Russian ideologue believed to have had a strong
influence on Vladimir Putin has been killed in a car bomb on the outskirts of
Moscow, according to multiple media reports.
Darya
Dugin, daughter of Russian political commentator Alexander Dugin – dubbed
“Putin’s brain” – died when the Toyota Land Cruiser she was driving was ripped
apart by a powerful explosion about 20km west of the capital at around 9.30pm
local time.
The blast
occurred near the village of Bolshiye Vyazemy, according to Russian media sites
Baza and 112, and state-owned Novaya Gazeta.
Witnesses
said debris was thrown all over the road as the car was engulfed in flames
before crashing into a fence, according to reports.
Emergency
services said there had been one person in the car and that they died at the
scene.
Andrey
Krasnov, a friend of Dugina and the head of the Russian Horizon social
movement, confirmed the reports, according to the news agency Tass.
He said
that the bomb could have been intended for her father.
“This was
the father’s vehicle. Darya was driving another car but she took his car today,
while Alexander went in a different way. He returned, he was at the site of the
tragedy. As far as I understand, Alexander or probably they together were the
target,” Krasnov said.
The media
outlet 112 also claimed that Dugin and his daughter had been at an event
outside Moscow and had been due to travel back together until he decided to go
separately at the last minute.
Footage
circulating on social media appeared to show him at the scene in a state of
distress.
The head of
the self-proclaimed, pro-Kremlin Donetsk People’s Republic, Denis Pushilin ,
wrote on his Telegram channel that Daria Dugin had been killed and blamed the
Ukrainian government.
“Vile
villains! The terrorists of the Ukrainian regime, trying to eliminate Alexander
Dugin, blew up his daughter... In a car. Blessed memory of Daria, she is a real
Russian girl!”
Dugin is
known for developing an extreme rightwing view of Russia’s place in the world.
He has been described as a “Russian fascist” who has helped shape Vladimir
Putin’s expansionist foreign policy.
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