The circumstances of the death of Daria Duguina remain unclear: Russia accuses the Ukrainian intelligence services, which deny having ordered the crime. At the same time, her relatives and several hundred Muscovites buried this 29-year-old political scientist on Tuesday, who had died three days earlier in the explosion of her car.
At the head of the audience was his father, the reactionary and nationalist intellectual Alexandre Duguine, whose extremist positions he shared. The 60-year-old author, whose thinking is aligned with the imperialist views of the Kremlin, spoke at the ceremony and in front of cameras.
“She died at the front”
“Actually, she wasn’t afraid of anything. The last time we talked was at the Traditions festival. She told me: ‘Dad, I feel like a warrior. I feel like a heroine. I want to be like that. No I don’t want another destiny, I want to be with my people, my country,’” he said.
It was after this event that Daria Douguina lost her life. Although her daughter was also a strong supporter of the invasion of Ukraine, Alexander Dugin stated:
“She died on the front lines for the nation, for Russia. The front is here.”
A nationalist bet that comes from the ultra-nationalist upbringing that his father instilled in him, as he recalled in his speech: “Among the first words we taught him, in his childhood, there is obviously ‘Russia’, ‘our power’, ‘our people’, ‘our empire'”.
Putin’s condolences
The philosopher was first portrayed as the gray eminence of Vladimir Putin. But Alexander Dougin’s influence over the autocrat divides observers. For the essayist specialized in Russia, Michel Eltchaninoff, whom we receive this Wednesday on our antenna, the truth is that the two characters reason in unison.
“If Putin does not make phone calls to Dugin every morning to find out what he should do, he has been influenced by his extreme thinking,” he assured, before defining the latter: “Dugin has for at least 20 years advocated a Russia having than to enter into a civilizing war to the death” (against the West, editor’s note).
If the connection between Alexander Dougin and Vladimir Putin is questionable, the President of the Russian Federation did not fail to send a message of condolence on the sidelines of the funeral. He condemned a “despicable and cruel crime”, which “prematurely ended the life of Daria Douguina”, whom he described as “a brilliant and talented person with a truly Russian heart”.
His foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, stormed in on Tuesday: “It was a barbaric crime for which there can be no forgiveness (…). There can be no mercy for the organizers, the sponsors and the artists.”
Source: BFM TV
