A well-known pro-Russian military blogger he died and 16 other people were injured this Sunday in an explosion in a cafeteria in St. Petersburg (Russia) that allegedly belonged to the restaurant entrepreneur and head of the Wagner group, Yevgueni Prigozhin, according to the local newspaper Fontanka.
The Russian authorities have opened a criminal case for “murder in a generally dangerous way”.
“The strength of the explosive device was more than 200 grams of TNT (trinitrotoluene),” a law enforcement and security force source told the official TASS news agency.
The Interior Ministry confirmed that 16 people were injured and that the person who died is the well-known war correspondent Vladen Tatarski.
According to Fontanka, in the canteen Frente Cibernetico Z shows are usually organized on weekendswhich is believed to be associated with Prigozhin and which, according to the Institute for Strategic Studies (ISD), is a troll factory used to promote Russian propaganda on social media.
As it was
The St. Petersburg newspaper indicates that, according to an announcement posted on the VKontakte social network, Russia’s Facebook, this Sunday was held one such event with Tatarski in the direction where the café is located.
“It is known that the canteen previously belonged to Yevgeny Prigozhin,” he wrote on his Telegram channel.
According to Fontanka, who cites witnesses to the explosion, one of the guests, a woman presumablyhe brought the war correspondent a figurine containing the detonated explosive.
The official RÍA Nóvosti news agency says the gift was examined before being handed over to the military blogger, who knew the woman, having given him postcards on several occasions at similar events.
According to the independent outlet Meduza, Tatarski is a blogger and one of the most famous military correspondents who gained fame during the Russian military campaign in Ukraine.
He was born in the Donetsk region of Ukraine and fought in 2014 in the self-proclaimed people’s republic. He had more than 560,000 subscribers to his Telegram channel.
The Dugin case
The attack, which immediately reminded the explosion that killed Daria Dugin last Augustdaughter of the ultranationalist philosopher Alexander Dugin, took place during a conversation of the deceased on the invasion of Ukraine.
Russian authorities have accused Ukrainian secret services of being behind the attack, a point strongly denied by the Kiev government.
Dugin, 29, a hard-line political commentator and daughter of philosopher Alexandr Dugin, has long been a leading advocate of an imperialist Russia and has called on the Kremlin to step up its attack on Ukraine.
The attack occurred at night on a highway and smashed the windows of nearby houses in an affluent Moscow suburb. The government later called it a “terrorist act” and said the target was Dugin. Instead, he ended up killing her daughter because she boarded another car at the last moment, according to the Russian press.
Dugin, 60 years old, writer and philosopher, He is considered one of the ideologues who has most influenced Russian politics. in recent years and especially in the course adopted by President Putin.
In his youth he professed a radical anti-communism and anti-Sovietism which he abandoned after the fall of the Soviet Union to the point that in 1993 he defended with the communists the seat of the Russian Parliament bombed by order of the then Russian president, Boris Yeltsin.
After participated in the founding of the National Bolshevik Partya radical opposition formation that has already disappeared.
Since 2000, Dugin has been defending the ideas of Eurasianism and conservatism, which he proposes as an ideological platform to the authorities of the country, which he accuses of being devoid of any ideology.
It has been subject to US sanctions since 2015 for “actions or policies that threaten the peace, security, stability, or sovereignty or territorial integrity of Ukraine”.
In March 2022, after the start of the Russian “special military operation” in Ukraine, his late daughter it was also sanctioned by the United States. for his work as director of the United World International (UWI) website, described by Washington as “a medium of disinformation”.
Source: Clarin
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