Russia’s security services (FSB) on Monday accused Ukraine’s “special services” of killing the daughter of a reputed ideologue close to the Kremlin who was killed in a car explosion near Moscow, Russian news agencies reported.
Daria Dougina died on Saturday night in the explosion of the vehicle she was driving on a highway near the village of Bolchiye Viaziomy, about forty kilometers from Moscow. A journalist and political scientist born in 1992, she was the daughter of Alexander Dougin, an ultra-nationalist ideologue and writer who promoted an expansionist doctrine and was a staunch supporter of the Russian offensive in Ukraine.
The FSB paints a portrait of their suspect
“The murder was prepared and committed by the Ukrainian special services,” the FSB said in a statement cited by Russian agencies, including Ria Novosti. According to the same source, the car Daria Douguina was driving was trapped by a woman of Ukrainian nationality born in 1979, identified by the FSB as Natalia Vovk, who arrived in Russia in July with her youngest daughter, born in 2010.
Always according to the FSB, this person had rented an apartment in the building where Dougina lived and had gone on Saturday to a cultural festival in which the journalist and political scientist was also present. According to the FSB, this Ukrainian woman then fled to Estonia with her daughter. The detail of the story provided by the FSB goes so far as to specify that Natalia Vovk traveled aboard a Mini Cooper registered first in the “Donetsk Democratic Republic”, then “in Kazakhstan and Ukraine”.
Dougin, promoter of “Eurasianism”
Questioned on Saturday by Russian media believing that the target of the attack was in fact Alexander Dougin, Ukraine on Sunday denied any involvement in Dougina’s death. “Ukraine certainly had nothing to do with the explosion (on Saturday), because we are not a criminal state,” said an adviser to the Ukrainian presidency, Mikhaïlo Podoliak.
A promoter of “Eurasianism”, a doctrine that advocates an alliance between Europe and Asia under Russian leadership, Alexandre Douguine, who influences part of the French extreme right, has been the target since 2014 of the EU sanctions adopted as a result of the annexation of Ukrainian Crimea. peninsula by Russia. In recent years, Ukraine has banned several of his books, including Ukraine. my war geopolitical magazine Y Russia’s Eurasian Revenge.
Alexander Dougin, dubbed “Putin’s brain” by some media, is sometimes portrayed as close to the Russian president. But many observers downplay his alleged influence in the Kremlin.
Source: BFM TV
