Hundreds of people attended the funeral of Daria Dugina, the daughter of one of Russia’s leading ultranationalist intellectuals, who was killed in a bomb attack in Moscow on Tuesday (23rd).
Kyiv denies any responsibility for Dugina’s death and denies the Russian blame.
Alexander Dugin, a supporter of the occupation of Ukraine, who says he is close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, may be the target of the attack that killed his 29-year-old daughter.
The funeral was held in a hall in the Ostankino TV center in Moscow, where a photo of Dugina was placed in front of the open coffin.
Dugin and his wife sat beside their daughter’s coffin.
At the beginning of the ceremony, Dugin said, “He died at the front for the people, for Russia. The front is here.”
Dugina died on Saturday when a bomb planted in her car exploded while driving down a street 40 kilometers from Moscow.
Russia blamed Ukrainian intelligence services for the attack, which the Ukrainian government denied.
Dugin, 60, rose to prominence during the intellectual chaos that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s.
He was an anti-communist dissident in the last years of the USSR.
The intellectual with the long beard and the air of a prophet claims to have ideological influence over Putin.
The Russian president has become increasingly hostile to the West, and many believe Dugin bears some responsibility for change. Some analysts call him “Putin’s Rasputin or “Putin’s Brain”.
Vladimir Putin has never publicly supported him, but on Monday, the Kremlin issued a condolence message from the president denouncing the “vile crime” that killed Dugina.
Daria Dugina was also a large presence on pro-Kremlin television channels such as Russia Today and Tsargrad.
source: Noticias
