The murder of the daughter of an ally of Vladimir Putin unleashes a wave of indignation in Russia

The attack in which Daria Dúguina, daughter of the leader of the neo-Eurasist movement Alexandr Dugin, one of the close allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin, died last night. sparked a wave of indignation in the Russian political class, which demands that crime not go unpunished.

The leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic in eastern Ukraine, the pro-Russian Denis Pushilin, directly accused the Kiev government of being behind the attack.

“In an attempt to eliminate Alexandr Dugin, the Ukrainian regime’s terrorists killed his daughter,” he wrote on Telegram.

In the same social network, the spokeswoman for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, María Zajárova, warned that if the “Ukrainian footprint” is confirmed in the attack it will be necessary to “talk about the policy of state terrorism of the kyiv regime.

“We await the results of the investigation,” concluded the diplomat.

kyiv denies it

In turn, Russian Senator Andréi Klishas described the attack as “enemy attack” and asked for its material and intellectual authors to be brought to justice.

“This crime cannot go unpunished (…) We have to respond harshly and decisively,” said Pyotr Tolstoy, deputy chairman of the State Duma, the Russian Chamber of Deputies.

the Ukrainian authorities They denied any involvement in the attack.

“I emphasize that Ukraine has nothing to do with this, because we are not a criminal state like the Russian Federation and we are not a terrorist state,” said Mikhailo Podolyak, one of the advisors to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Duguina, 29 years old He died when a bomb exploded under his vehicle. when he was driving down a highway outside Moscow from a festival he had been to with his father.

According to the digital Gazeta.ru, which cites a Telegran channel, Dugin had planned to return to Moscow in his daughter’s car, but changed his mind at the last moment.

Duguin, 60, writer and philosopher, he is considered one of the ideologues which has most influenced Russian politics in recent years and in particular the course adopted by President Putin.

In his youth he professed an anti-communism and a radical anti-Sovietism which he abandoned after the fall of the Soviet Union to the point that in 1993 with the Communists he defended the seat of the Russian parliament killed by order of the then Russian president Boris Yeltsin.

He later participated in the founding of the National Bolshevik Party, a now defunct radical opposition formation.

Since the year 2000 Dugin defends the ideas of Eurasianism and conservatismwhich he proposes as an ideological platform to the authorities of the country, which he accuses of being devoid of any ideology.

Since 2015 it has been subject to US sanctions 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 was also sanctioned by the United States. for her work as director of the United World International (UWI) website, described by Washington as “a means of disinformation”.

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In recent years Ukraine has banned many of its books, most notably “Ukraine. My War. Geopolitical Diary” and “Russia’s Eurasian Revenge”.

Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24 after the United States rejected Putin’s demands to shelve NATO membership plans for the former Soviet republic, something Moscow has seen for decades as a threat to its security and a “red line” that no one should have acknowledged.

Putin has repeatedly stated that one of the central objectives of the invasion is protection from the Ukrainian government to Russian-speaking Ukrainians who do not feel represented by the authorities that govern the country since a wave of popular protests supported by the West in 2014 ousted a president who promoted good relations with Russia.

After the violent ouster of former President Viktor Yanukovych, the southern Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, which has a large Russian-speaking population, held two referendums to join Russia.

Source: EFE and AP

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