Russia turns the funeral of Daria Dugina into an argument to justify the siege of Ukraine

The last farewell of Daria Dugina, assassinated last Saturday night in the middle of the highway on the outskirts of Moscow with a bomb attached to her car, has become this Tuesday a praise in favor of the Russian victory over Ukraine.

“Dad, I feel the war in me, I feel like a heroine.

I don't want another destination.

I want [to be] with my country, with my people;

I want to be on the side of the forces of light ”, were her last words, according to her father, the ideologue of Russian ultranationalism Alexander Dugin, in her first public reappearance after the loss of his daughter.

The official investigation has not only pointed to Ukraine as the perpetrator of the attack, but also to a country of the European Union, Estonia, which Russia now accuses of harboring terrorists.

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During the funeral, all attention fell on Alexander Dugin.

“Because she died for the people!

For Russia, for the front! ”, Said the philosopher of Eurasianism with a broken voice, and remarked that her death has been“ the highest price, which must be paid and may only be justified by victory.

Our victory."

Dugin, founder decades ago of the National-Bolshevik party and later a source of inspiration for the most radical wing that prowls the Kremlin, extolled his daughter's warlike spirit and said he had had a conversation with her that last day about "God's fight against his enemies".

The parents of the deceased, Alexander Dugin and Natalia Melentieva, watched over the coffin dressed in deep mourning and accompanied by Konstantin Maloféyev, one of the most important businessmen in the Russian ultra-nationalist sector and a close friend of the philosopher.

The owner of the ultra-Orthodox Tsargrad television was sanctioned in 2014 by the West for financing the irruption of Russian military groups in Donbas, which led to open warfare in the eastern basin of Ukraine.

“In the blood of our martyrs we become stronger.

We will definitely win this war,” he stated.

Deputy Chairman of the State Duma and a member of Putin's party, Sergei Neverov, also delivered another speech during the funeral ceremony where he denied the very existence of Ukraine.

“I have no doubt that not only the executors, but the organizers will pay in full.

The path of light that Daria led unites us even more for the liberation of Russian cities in the fight against fascism and that hateful regime."

President Vladimir Putin has awarded a posthumous award to Daria Dugina “for her dedication to professional duty”.

She is a political scientist and journalist, in one of her last interventions she accused the West of simulating the Bucha massacre.

The medal was presented to her father during her funeral.

“Thus we see how the abolition of culture ends.

It ends in murder and destruction.

Both the philosopher Alexander Dugin and the philosopher Daria Dugin opposed exactly this," said the representative of the president at the funeral, Igor Shchiógolev.

“I think that we must kill, and kill and kill the Ukrainians.

There's nothing more to say.

As a professor, I think so," Dugin said in a video conference in 2014, the year Russia began its war with Ukraine.

Dugina's death has fueled Russian ultra-nationalism.

In another of the speeches delivered during the farewell ceremony for his remains, Leonid Slutski, leader of the Liberal-Democratic Party of Russia (PLDR), a populist and at the same time totally loyal to Putin in the State Duma (Parliament), uttered: “! One country, one president, one victory!

And to Dasha, the kingdom of heaven!”

This fragment, which closed his speech, was cut by the party itself when publishing the video of his speech.

As highlighted by the 'Danger, news' section of the Telegram channel, the slogan "intensely recalls the motto 'One people, one Reich, one führer' of Nazi Germany."

Witch hunt

The assassination threatens to further complicate Ukraine's exit from the war, the situation of its citizens in Russia, and relations with the Baltic countries.

Slutski stressed during the funeral that "it will be difficult to set up negotiations between Russia and Ukraine after Dugina's murder", and later issued a highly dramatic warning to Europe.

"I am now addressing every Estonian ... among you there are murderers," he emphasized with a pause of several seconds.

In his same speech, he also fueled a witch hunt.

“Today, invisible killers who have the same name as us, who also speak Russian, kill our children not only on the front lines.

It is our responsibility to make sure that something so monstrous does not happen again," stressed the ultra-nationalist politician.

The attack has raised the tension even more if it fits in what a war supposes.

"The US Embassy urges US citizens to leave Ukraine via available ground transportation if it is safe," the US diplomatic mission warned in a statement.

Ukraine celebrates this Wednesday, August 24, its most symbolic holiday, the day of independence from the Soviet Union, and a hypothetical measure of Russian punishment is feared.

That same day marks six months since the entry of Russian troops into the country.

The spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zajárova, in turn charged the US through her Telegram channel for not commenting on the formal accusation filed by Russia against the Ukrainian secret services for the murder.

"Washington has no moral (or legal) right to judge human rights in remote places because it does not comment on the murder of a journalist by someone so significant to them," she said.

The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) had charged this Monday, 48 hours after the murder, an alleged Ukrainian military officer who, according to the Kremlin's version, crossed into Russia with her 12-year-old daughter in a car with various license plates, he was present at the planting of the bomb and later escaped to Estonia.

The Russian authorities came to show a recording of the alleged spy in the foreground in the middle of the victim's portal.

However, the cameras in the parking lot of the festival where the explosive was placed were not working.

Tallinn accuses Russia of plotting an intrigue against him.

“Estonia considers the FSB statement a provocation.

We are not going to add more,” said his Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu, in statements collected by the Russian agency Interfax.

Tension with Tallinn has risen in recent weeks after the Baltic nation decided to prohibit the entry of Russians with a Schengen visa granted by Estonia itself through its borders as of August 18.

The exception is Russians with a long-term Estonian visa, diplomats or those who have a visa from another country of the European Union.

Estonia is part of the bloc of the rest of the Baltic nations, Poland and the Czech Republic that advocate preventing the entry of Russians into the community bloc.

They are opposed by Germany, France and States with a large tourist influx such as Greece and Cyprus.

"Estonia seeks to restrict the ability of the aggressor state to maintain ordinary international life, both at the state and citizen levels," the Tallinn statement collected when announcing the measure.

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