On this handout photograph taken from video launched by the Investigative Committee of Russia on Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022, investigators work on the location of explosion of a automotive pushed by Darya Dugina exterior Moscow. Dugina, the daughter of Alexander Dugin, the Russian nationalist ideologist typically known as “Putin’s mind,” was killed when her automotive exploded on the outskirts of Moscow, officers mentioned Sunday. The Investigative Committee department for the Moscow area mentioned the Saturday evening blast was attributable to a bomb planted within the SUV pushed by Dugina. Investigative Committee of Russia through Related Press
Darya Dugina, 29, the daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s shut ally, Alexander Dugin, died after a car she was driving exploded close to Moscow. Russian officers say a bomb was planted in her SUV and detonated after she had left a cultural competition she was attending along with her father.
Russian officers, together with Dugin, have known as this an act of terror, stating that the “enemies of Russia” had killed her, portraying her as a martyr. Nonetheless, hypothesis lingers on who might have carried out this assault and why.
Who's Darya Dugina?
Dugina was a TV commentator and journalist for a number of Russian media organizations. She labored as an editor alongside her father for United World Worldwide, a self-proclaimed impartial media group. Like her father, she shared many right-wing and traditionalist values.
The USA and the United Kingdom had each positioned Dugina beneath sanctions for her statements within the media, saying that she was a “frequent and high-profile contributor of disinformation in relation to Ukraine and the Russian invasion of Ukraine on numerous on-line platforms,” per The New York Occasions.
Who's accountable?
Shortly after the incident, Russia’s Federal Safety Service, or FSB, claimed to have solved the investigation. The FSB alleges that Ukraine is accountable for the bombing, based on BBC Information.
The FSB states that a girl who works for Ukrainian secret companies had moved into the identical residence constructing as Dugina in July. They declare this girl had been following Dugina in a Mini Cooper, utilizing three completely different license plates to keep away from detection.
Russian newspapers declare that this girl is linked to the Azov battalion, deemed a terrorist group in Russia. Nonetheless, the Azov battalion refutes this, stating that the girl was by no means a member of their group, per Reuters. After the bombing, newspapers allege, she fled to Estonia.
The Ukrainian authorities additionally disputes accusations leveled towards it. “Ukraine actually had nothing to do with yesterday’s explosion,” mentioned Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. “We're not a felony state just like the Russian Federation, a lot much less a terrorist one.”
What was the motive?
Russia has speculated that Dugina’s father, Alexander, was the supposed goal of the bomb. The pair deliberate to go away collectively after attending a competition earlier that day, however in a last-minute determination, Dugin determined to go away in a separate car, based on BBC.
Dugin has been an in depth ally of Putin and an avid supporter of the invasion of Ukraine. He disdains the concept of an impartial Ukraine and has advocated for a violent restructuring of the nation.
“Ukraine needs to be both vanished from Earth and rebuilt from scratch or folks have to get it. I believe folks in Ukraine want complete revolt on all ranges and in all areas,” Dugin mentioned, per CNN. “I believe kill, kill and kill. No extra speak anymore. It's my opinion as a professor.”
With tensions excessive between Russia and Ukraine, there could possibly be any quantity of people that have a vendetta towards Dugin and are prepared to hold out such an assault, and such an individual might come from plenty of backgrounds or organizations.
For instance, a former Russian lawmaker, Ilya Ponomaryov, says that a Russian militant group known as the Nationwide Republican Military reached out to him, claiming duty for the assault. Nonetheless, Reuters and different information organizations haven't been in a position to again up this declare, nor has Ponomaryov supplied any additional proof to again these claims.