According to the information released by the Russian police on Monday (22), the explosive placed in the car of journalist and political analyst Darya Dugina, who died last Saturday night (20), was detonated from afar.
Dugina, 29, was the daughter of prominent philosopher Alexander Dugin, who is considered by the Western press to be one of the inspiration behind the ultranationalist policies of President Vladimir Putin’s regime.
“It has been confirmed that the bomb in Dugina’s car was triggered remotely. The car was probably tracked,” a police source told state news agency Tass.
The political analyst was driving a Toyota Land Cruiser Prado, returning from a festival named after Dugin where the philosopher was teaching. The two were supposed to travel in the same car, but at the last moment Dugin would decide to go to a separate car – there is a suspicion that he was the true target of the attack.
Denis Pushilin, leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk Republic, accused Ukraine of being behind the explosion, but Kyiv denies it.
“Ukraine has nothing to do with the murder of Dugin’s daughter,” Mikhailo Podolyak, chief adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky, said on Sunday.
Russian police launched an investigation into the incident. “If the leadership of Ukraine is confirmed by the relevant authorities, then we will confirm the policy of state terrorism implemented by the Kyiv regime,” said Maria Zakharova, spokesperson of the Moscow Foreign Ministry.
Dugin, who has advised several politicians, is known for his far-right views. In recent years, he has been recognized by the Western press as one of the inspirations of Putin’s ultranationalist foreign policy, although the Russian media has seen him as a “marginal” figure.
In 2014, the philosopher was expelled from Moscow State University after he filed an appeal in defense of the massacre of Ukrainians. By contrast, Dugina was a prominent political analyst and advocated Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which led to Ukraine’s endorsement by the United States and the United Kingdom.
source: Noticias
