Daughter of Putin adviser dies: Russian underground group claims attack for itself
Created: 08/22/2022Updated: 08/22/2022 06:54
By: Tobias Utz, Moritz Serif
The daughter of a right-wing extremist close to the Kremlin dies in a suspected assassination attempt.
A Russian underground group is now claiming responsibility for the attack.
Update from Monday, August 22, 6:45 a.m .:
A previously unknown Russian underground group is said to have carried out the alleged attack on Alexander Dugin's car.
That's what the Putin critic Ilya Ponomarev claimed on Sunday evening in an opposition TV channel he co-founded.
The National Republican Army (NRA) authorized him to make a statement.
"We declare President Putin an illegitimate contender for power and a war criminal who changed the constitution, unleashed fratricidal war between Slavic peoples and sent Russian soldiers to certain and senseless deaths," the statement said.
The NRA wants to overthrow the Putin regime.
Neither the document nor Ponomarev's statements have been independently verified.
In this handout photo released by the Russian Investigative Committee, investigators work at the scene of the explosion of a car driven by Daria Dugina outside Moscow.
© Uncredited/Investigative Committee of Russia/AP/dpa
Daughter of Putin adviser dies in attack: Russia starts investigations
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According to the
New York Times
, Russia has started the investigation.
Darja Dugina, daughter of a Putin adviser, died in an attack.
However, according to the current status of the investigation, it is unclear how her death came about.
Russia blamed Ukraine.
Kyiv rejects the allegations.
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Darja Dugina, daughter of a Putin adviser, died in an attack.
Now Russian media are rushing against Ukraine and accusing the country of being responsible for the attack.
According to t-online, Tsargrad TV is disseminating statements by Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of the Russian channel RT.
The Kremlin must now provide an answer.
"Kyiv will tremble," she said.
Akim Apachev, Russian military commander, said: "Of course, this is a great loss for all of us, but I would like to say that it will certainly be avenged".
Ukraine said it had nothing to do with the attack.
Attack in Russia: Daughter of Putin adviser dies – authorities give new details
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The Russian authorities have now confirmed again who died in the attack near Moscow on Sunday morning: “The identity of the dead has been clarified – it is the journalist and political scientist Darja Dugina,” said the national investigative committee .
The attack happened on Saturday evening in a suburb of Moscow.
According to initial findings, an explosive device was mounted on the vehicle, which detonated.
Update from Sunday, August 21, 11:45 a.m .:
The Ukrainian government in Kiev has stressed that it has nothing to do with the attack on Daria Dugina, daughter of Alexander Dugin.
"Unlike Russia, we are not a criminal state," said Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on Sunday morning.
So far it is unclear who was behind the alleged murder.
Police investigations in Moscow are ongoing.
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First report from Sunday, August 21, 6:45 a.m .:
Moscow – According to consistent reports, an attack on the right-wing extremist Alexander Dugin has apparently occurred in Russia.
His daughter Daria Dugina was killed, as an investigative committee of the Russian authorities officially said on Sunday morning.
According to Russian media reports, the car Dugina was in exploded while driving.
The Russian newspaper
Kommersant
reports that Dugin actually wanted to drive the jeep.
He is said to have changed his mind at short notice.
He and his daughter are said to have attended a festival organized by the Kremlin before the attack.
The Russian police are now investigating.
The authorities have not yet commented on this.
Russia: Far-right Alexander Dugin known as "Putin's Brain".
Alexander Dugin is considered an influential advisor to Vladimir Putin.
He is a prominent representative of the neo-racist theory, according to which Russia must become a great empire again.
In the right-wing extremist scene, he is considered to be very well connected.
Dugin rose to international prominence
in the 1990s as a writer for the far-right newspaper
Den .
In it he published, among other things, a manifesto entitled “The Great War of the Continents”.
In it he revealed his idea of Russia's dominance over the West.
Dugin has appeared as a commentator on Russian state television several times in the past.
Among other things, he was nicknamed "Putin's brain".
The
Washington Post
once saw him in an analysis as the Kremlin's strategist in the Ukraine war.
Alexander Dugin, photographed in 2014. (Archive photo) © imago stock&people / Imago Images
Dugin's allegedly killed daughter, Daria Dugina, is said to have also followed the extreme right-wing ideology.
(do with dpa/AFP)