Daughter killed by Putin whisperer: Now Russian underground organization claims responsibility for Dugina murder
Created: 08/22/2022, 09:21 am
By: Andreas Schmid
Darya Dugina, daughter of Putin whisperer Alexander Dugin, was killed in a car bomb attack.
Now an unknown Russian underground organization has claimed responsibility.
Update from August 22
: It is still puzzling who is behind the bomb attack in which Darja Dugina, the daughter of Putin ideologue Alexander Dugin, died.
Now the former Duma deputy Ilya Ponomaryov, who currently lives in Kyiv, brings a previously unknown Russian underground organization into play.
In a post on an opposition TV station he co-founded, Valdimir Putin's critic said that the National Republican Army (NRA) claimed responsibility for the assassination.
This emerges from reports by the Ukrainian online
medium Kyiv Independent
and the British
The Guardian
.
Assassination attempt on Darja Dugina: Further attacks on targets close to the Kremlin are to follow
As a result, in the report aired on Sunday (21 August), Ponomarev said: “A momentous event took place near Moscow last night.
This attack opens a new page in the Russian resistance to Putinism.
New – but not the last.”
He went on to say that the partisans would be ready to launch similar attacks inside Russia on high-level targets close to the Kremlin, be they officials, oligarchs or intelligence operatives.
According to former Duma deputy Ilya Ponomaryov, a Russian underground organization has claimed responsibility for the attack on Darya Dugina.
(Archive photo from 2013) © Yuri Kochetkov/dpa/picture alliance
Ponomarev also read from an alleged NRA manifesto.
"We declare President Putin a usurper and a war criminal who changed the constitution, unleashed fratricidal war between Slavic peoples and sent Russian soldiers to certain and senseless deaths."
However, the authenticity of the manifesto and Ponomarev's statements has not yet been independently verified.
So the situation is still unclear.
Assassination attempt on Darya Dugina: should her father be killed?
First report from August 21
: Moscow – The daughter of Putin fanatic Alexander Dugin is dead. As Russian authorities announced, there was an assassination attempt near Moscow.
"The identity of the dead has been clarified - it is the journalist and political scientist Darya Dugina," said the national investigative committee on Sunday.
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In this photo released by the Russian Investigative Committee, investigators work at the scene of the car explosion that killed Daria Dugina.
The investigative authorities have initiated criminal proceedings for murder.
© IMAGO / SNA
The 29-year-old was considered a fervent supporter of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine.
She was on the UK sanctions list for spreading propaganda and fake news.
Her father is a right-wing nationalist ideologue and is considered "Putin's brain".
Assassination attempt on Darja Dugina: Russian authorities are investigating in different directions
According to police, Dugina's car exploded around 9 p.m. on Saturday evening while driving in a Moscow suburban housing estate.
According to initial findings, an explosive device was mounted on the vehicle – a Toyota Land Cruiser – and detonated.
Dugina died on the spot.
The Russian authorities said it was being investigated in different directions.
This leaves open the question of whether the attempted murder could have been aimed at Dugina's father.
According to the Russian news agency Interfax, father and daughter attended the patriotic festival "Tradition" together on Saturday, which is supported by a foundation of Vladimir Putin.
"It was planned that father and daughter would leave the festival together, but Darja drove alone in the vehicle," Interfax said.
Tass news agency reported that she was driving her father's car.
Putin fanatics and warmongers: who is Alexander Dugin?
Alexander Dugin is repeatedly referred to by the media and authors as the whisperer or the "brains" of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
This designation is controversial.
But he is considered a prominent voice on the Russian right, in Germany there are connections to the AfD.
Some critics even describe him as the idea generator for the attack on Ukraine.
Like Putin, Dugin fantasized about the return of the Soviet Union on several occasions.
After the annexation of Crimea and the start of the Ukraine conflict, he called on the Russians to "kill Ukrainians".
"Putin's brain" and ultra-right mastermind: Alexander Dugin © IMAGO / Russian Look
Assassination attempt on Darya Dugina: Russian nationalists attack Ukraine
The attack sparked horror among Russian nationalists and pro-Russian forces in Ukraine.
"The terrorists of the Ukrainian regime tried to liquidate Alexander Dugin and blew up his daughter... in the car," wrote the leader of the separatist stronghold of Donetsk, Denis Pushilin, on Telegram.
Darja will be remembered - as a "real Russian girl".
It is unclear who is behind the attack.
Ukraine denies any involvement.
"Of course, Ukraine has nothing to do with yesterday's explosion because we are not a criminal state - like the Russian Federation - and certainly not a terrorist state," said Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podoliak, according to
Ukrayinska Pravda
.
The perpetrator or perpetrators could possibly also come from a Russian resistance group.
Dugina died on the second anniversary of the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.
(as/dpa)