The daughter of Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin, considered Putin's "spiritual guide" and nicknamed the "brain" of Kremlin master Darya Dugina, was killed in a car explosion near the village of Bolshie Vyazemy, in the outskirts of Moscow on Saturday, announced the Russian news agency TASS, relayed in particular by CNN, The Guardian and the BBC.
The Russian Investigative Committee confirmed the information in a statement on Sunday, stating that the young woman "was killed on the spot".
What happened ?
According to Andrei Krasnov, leader of the Russian Horizon movement, close to the family of the deceased and quoted by the TASS agency, Darya Douguina "lost control of the vehicle while it was driving at high speed and was propelled in the opposite direction of the road ".
The latter explains that “the car caught fire immediately” after the explosion, when it “turned towards the Mozhaiskoye highway, near the village of Bolshie Vyazemy”.
According to the investigators of the Committee, who opened an investigation for "homicide", an explosive device was placed in the vehicle.
Russia: Alexander Dugin's daughter's jeep exploded near the village of Bolshie Vyazemy in the Moscow region.
According to preliminary data, Daria in the Land Cruiser Prado vehicle.
Eyewitnesses claim the car exploded while driving.
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Why was she targeted?
Andrei Krasnov believes the explosion was an attempted murder of his father Alexander Dougin: “It was his father's car.
Darya usually drives another car, but she drove this vehicle today, and Alexander left in another car”.
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Who was Darya Douguina?
Born in 1992, Darya Douguina, according to TASS, studied at the University of Moscow and was sanctioned in March 2022 by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), a financial control body, dependent on the State Department of the Treasury. United, for contributing to an article on the United World International (UWI) website suggesting that Ukraine would “perish” if admitted to NATO.
Who is behind the explosion?
If no proof of a possible involvement has yet been found at the scene of the tragedy, the leader of the People's Republic of Donetsk (DNR), self-proclaimed by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, Denis Pushilin accused this Sunday the Ukrainian forces of being behind the assassination of Daria Douguina.
"Ukrainian regime terrorists tried to liquidate Alexander Dugin, but blew up his daughter," Pushilin said on Telegram.
