Dugina murder: Russia gives details of the alleged perpetrator - Putin and Dugin speak up
Created: 08/23/2022, 06:16
By: Andreas Schmid
Darya Dugina, daughter of Putin whisperer Alexander Dugin, was killed in a car bomb attack.
Russia blames Ukraine for the murder.
Kyiv denies.
Assassination attempt
on
Darja Dugina
: Russia propagandist dies in car bomb.
Putin fanatic Alexander Dugin
: should he be killed?
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killing of Darja Dugina
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Update from August 23, 6:12 a.m
.: Vladimir Putin awarded the killed war supporter Darja Dugina posthumously with the Order of Bravery.
According to the Kremlin, her "bravery and dedication in fulfilling her professional task" was honored.
Sources in the security apparatus told Tass agency that the attack was really aimed at 29-year-olds and not at her father, Alexander Dugin.
On August 22, the Russian domestic secret service FSB reported alleged investigation results according to which a Ukrainian woman is said to have murdered Dugina on behalf of Kiev secret services.
Ukraine denies any responsibility for the attack.
Experts pointed to numerous inconsistencies in the alleged evidence presented by the FSB.
Assassination attempt on Darja Dugina: Putin friend Alexander Dugin speaks up
Update from August 22, 8 p.m.:
After the murder of his daughter Darja, the well-known thinker Alexander Dugin called on the Russians to fight in the spirit of his right-wing nationalist and imperialist ideology.
“Our hearts do not simply thirst for vengeance or vengeance.
That would be too small, not Russian," Dugin told Telegram about his confidante, the oligarch Konstantin Malofeev.
“We just need our victory.
My daughter laid her girlish life on his altar.
So please win!”
Dugin, who is close to the Kremlin, has now praised his daughter as a "beautiful Orthodox girl" and as a "patriot" who was killed by "the enemies of Russia".
Russian President Vladimir Putin posthumously awarded Dugina the Order of Bravery on Monday.
Sources in the Russian security apparatus told
Tass
Agency that the attack was clearly aimed at the daughter, not the father.
Update from August 22, 4:30 p.m .:
Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences to the family of the 29-year-olds after the murder of the Russian war advocate Darya Dugina.
In a telegram to right-wing nationalist Alexander Dugin, Putin wrote: "An ugly, brutal crime has destroyed the life of Darya Dugina, a brilliant, talented person with a real Russian heart, good, loving, helpful and open." Russian ruler: "Journalist, scholar, philosopher, war correspondent, she honestly served the people, the fatherland and showed through deeds what it means to be a patriot of Russia."
Update from August 22, 1:30 p.m
.: Russia blames Ukraine for the murder of war supporter Darya Dugina.
"The crime was prepared and committed by Ukrainian secret services," Russia's domestic intelligence agency FSB said on Monday, according to the Interfax agency.
Ukraine has denied having anything to do with Dugina's assassination over the weekend.
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According to the Russian secret service, a Ukrainian born in 1979 is responsible for the attack.
She placed an explosive device in Dugima's car and then fled to the EU and NATO country of Estonia.
Update from August 22, 8:30 a.m
.: It is still unclear 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
.
Accordingly, the organization would have asked Ponomarev to publish the confession.
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 Darja Dugina: Russia propagandist dies in a car bomb
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.
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".
Putin Fanatic Alexander Dugin: Should He Be Killed?
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.
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)