Darya Dugina was the daughter of radical author Alexander Dugin and was on the UK sanctions list for spreading propaganda and fake news Photo: Twitter
By Birthe Wenge
Russian propagandist Darya Dugina (29) was killed in a car bomb attack near Moscow on Saturday evening.
“The identity of the dead has been clarified – it is the journalist and political scientist Darya Dugina,” said the national investigative committee in Moscow on Sunday.
Dugina was 29 and a prominent supporter of the brutal attack on Ukraine. According to Moscow media reports, she was on the UK sanctions list for spreading propaganda and fake news about the Ukraine war.
And: She has an even more famous father who was only meters away from her when she was killed.
According to investigators, Dugina’s car exploded while driving in a settlement near Moscow. Investigators released a video of the experts working on site. According to initial findings, an explosive device was mounted on the vehicle, which detonated. There were videos of the burning car on social networks. It will be determined in different directions, it said in the statement of the investigators.
Dugina was the daughter of the right-wing nationalist Alexander Dugin, whom the media repeatedly called “the whisperer”, “Putin’s brain” or his “Rasputin” (after the famous impostor at the court of the last Russian tsar).
Dugin is even described by some as the actual “idea generator” for the brutal attack on Ukraine. He dreamed of a Russian empire stretching from Siberia far into western Europe.
Was the attack actually aimed at him? Quite possible. Investigators left this open.