(20) The ultra-nationalist philosopher Alexander Dugin and his daughter Daria Dugina, who were killed in an attack on Saturday, shared the same ideology and enjoyed significant media exposure in Russia, although their influence in the Kremlin was controversial.
60-year-old Alexander Dugin rose to prominence in Russia in the intellectual chaos that followed the collapse of the communist system in the 1990s. For a time he aligned himself with the writer Eduard Limonov, who advocated the existence of a “National-Bolshevik” opposition party.
Dugin, a neo-Eurasian theorist of anti-liberal thought that advocates a Russian-led alliance between Europe and Asia, is a regular on television shows and is known for his prophetic long beard.
While many have questioned this claim, Dugin boasted of being a sort of ideological guru to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who offered his personal condolences to the philosopher after the death of 29-year-old Daria Dugina, accused by Moscow of a secret service act. Ukrainian.
“As a journalist, scientist, philosopher and war correspondent, he sincerely served the people and the homeland, showing with his actions what a Russian patriot means,” said Putin.
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In the dark context of the Russian power system, there are observers who doubt Dugin’s true ties to the Kremlin.
Putin never appeared in public with this philosopher and even criticized ultranationalists, who in the past were seen as a danger in a multi-ethnic Russia.
Dugin’s real or simulated closeness, albeit purely ideological, to the Russian president has earned him very real reprisals: since 2014, after Russia’s annexation of Crimea, the ultranationalist, European Union (EU) and United States became the target of sanctions. . . .
Moreover, in recent years some of his radical ideas seem to have actually entered the Kremlin, which launched a military offensive against Ukraine, which has been denounced as an attempt to rebuild the former Russian empire.
Following in her father’s footsteps, Daria, born in 1992, had gained a reputation in the Russian public media in recent years.
Daria Platonova, nicknamed for her work in philosophy, has worked with pro-Kremlin media such as Russia Today (RT) and Tsargrad.
Like her father, after studying in Bordeaux in the southwest of France, Daria began to associate with far-right personalities in Western Europe. Among them are names connected with French politics, Marine Le Pen.
Daria Dugina also went to the separatist regions of eastern Ukraine as a correspondent during the offensive of Russian troops, which Dugins enthusiastically defended. It has also been approved by the United States and the United Kingdom.
On Saturday, father and daughter were driving together, but in separate cars from a conservative cultural festival in the Moscow region, when Dugina’s car exploded.
In his last interview, recorded shortly before his death, he criticized what he called “racism” in human rights and homosexuality, and assured that Russia would end “dangerous Western totalitarianism” with the attack in Ukraine.
source: Noticias
