Moscow: Russia On Monday, Ukrainian intelligence was blamed for the car bombing that killed the daughter of a prominent right-wing Russian political ideologue over the weekend. Ukraine Denied involvement.
Daria doubleA 29-year-old commentator with a nationalist Russian TV channel was killed when a remotely controlled explosive device mounted on her SUV detonated Saturday night while she was driving on the outskirts of Moscow’s vehicle. separated and killed him. Spot, officials said.
His father, Alexander Dugin, was a philosopher, writer and political theorist, who enthusiastically supported the Russian president. Vladimir PutinThe decision to send troops to Ukraine was widely believed to be a targeted target. Russian media quoted eyewitnesses as saying, whose SUV is it? dug in And that he had decided to travel by another vehicle at the last minute.
Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB, the KGB’s main successor, said that the murder of Dugina was “prepared and carried out by the Ukrainian special services.”
The FSB said a Ukrainian national, Natalya Vovk, committed the murder and then fled to Estonia.
In Estonia, the prosecutor general’s office said in a statement carried by the Baltic News Services that it “has not received any requests or inquiries from the Russian authorities on this subject.”
The FSB said Vovk arrived in Russia with her 12-year-old daughter in July and rented an apartment in the building where Dugina lived to shade her. It said that Vovk and his daughter were at a nationalist festival that Dugin and his daughter had attended just before the assassination.
The agency released video of the suspect from surveillance cameras across the border and at the entrance to the Moscow apartment building.
The FSB said Vovk used a license plate for Ukraine’s Russian-backed separatist Donetsk region to enter Russia and a Kazakhstan plate in Moscow before switching to a Ukrainian plate for crossing into Estonia. .
Ukraine’s presidential adviser, Mykhailo Podolik, denied any Ukrainian involvement in the bombing. In a tweet, he dismissed the FSB’s claims as fiction, calling them part of an infiltration between Russian security agencies.
In a letter expressing condolences to Dugin and his wife, Putin denounced the “brutal and treacherous” killing and said that Dugin had “honestly served the people and the Fatherland, proving that Russia had the patriotism of being a patriot”. What do you mean?” He was posthumously awarded the Dugina the Order of Courage, one of Russia’s highest medals.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharov said Dugina’s killing reflects Kyiv’s reliance on “terrorism as an instrument of its criminal ideology”.
In a statement, Dugin described his daughter as a “rising star” who had been “treacherously killed by Russia’s enemies.”
“Our heart longs not only for revenge and vengeance. It will be too short, not in the style of Russia,” Dugin wrote. “We only need victory.”
Car bombings unusual for Moscow since the turbulent gang wars of the 1990s triggered calls from Russian nationalists to respond by intensifying attacks on Ukraine.
Pro-Kremlin political analyst Sergei Markov argued that the perpetrators of Dugina’s murder may have hoped to encourage division among those in the Russian elite who advocate a political settlement to end hostilities in Ukraine and even There are also supporters of tough military action.
Dugin, called “Putin’s brain” and “Putin’s Rasputin” by some in the West, has been a major proponent of the “Russian world” concept, a spiritual and political ideology that emphasizes the unity and unity of traditional values, the restoration of Russia’s global influence. gives. of all ethnic Russians around the world.
Dugin helped popularize the concept “Novorosia,” or “New Russia,” which was used by Russia to justify its 2014 annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula and its support of separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine. He urged the Kremlin to intensify its operations in Ukraine.
Dugin has also promoted authoritarian leadership in Russia and has spoken with disdain for liberal Western values. They are subject to US and EU sanctions.
His daughter expressed similar views and appeared as a commentator on the TV channel Zargrad, where Dugin served as editor-in-chief.
Dugina was herself cleared by the US in March for her work as editor-in-chief of United World International, a website that Washington has described as a source of disinformation.
In an appearance on Russian television last week, Dugina called America “a zombie society” where people oppose Russia but can’t find it on a map.
Daria doubleA 29-year-old commentator with a nationalist Russian TV channel was killed when a remotely controlled explosive device mounted on her SUV detonated Saturday night while she was driving on the outskirts of Moscow’s vehicle. separated and killed him. Spot, officials said.
His father, Alexander Dugin, was a philosopher, writer and political theorist, who enthusiastically supported the Russian president. Vladimir PutinThe decision to send troops to Ukraine was widely believed to be a targeted target. Russian media quoted eyewitnesses as saying, whose SUV is it? dug in And that he had decided to travel by another vehicle at the last minute.
Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB, the KGB’s main successor, said that the murder of Dugina was “prepared and carried out by the Ukrainian special services.”
The FSB said a Ukrainian national, Natalya Vovk, committed the murder and then fled to Estonia.
In Estonia, the prosecutor general’s office said in a statement carried by the Baltic News Services that it “has not received any requests or inquiries from the Russian authorities on this subject.”
The FSB said Vovk arrived in Russia with her 12-year-old daughter in July and rented an apartment in the building where Dugina lived to shade her. It said that Vovk and his daughter were at a nationalist festival that Dugin and his daughter had attended just before the assassination.
The agency released video of the suspect from surveillance cameras across the border and at the entrance to the Moscow apartment building.
The FSB said Vovk used a license plate for Ukraine’s Russian-backed separatist Donetsk region to enter Russia and a Kazakhstan plate in Moscow before switching to a Ukrainian plate for crossing into Estonia. .
Ukraine’s presidential adviser, Mykhailo Podolik, denied any Ukrainian involvement in the bombing. In a tweet, he dismissed the FSB’s claims as fiction, calling them part of an infiltration between Russian security agencies.
In a letter expressing condolences to Dugin and his wife, Putin denounced the “brutal and treacherous” killing and said that Dugin had “honestly served the people and the Fatherland, proving that Russia had the patriotism of being a patriot”. What do you mean?” He was posthumously awarded the Dugina the Order of Courage, one of Russia’s highest medals.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharov said Dugina’s killing reflects Kyiv’s reliance on “terrorism as an instrument of its criminal ideology”.
In a statement, Dugin described his daughter as a “rising star” who had been “treacherously killed by Russia’s enemies.”
“Our heart longs not only for revenge and vengeance. It will be too short, not in the style of Russia,” Dugin wrote. “We only need victory.”
Car bombings unusual for Moscow since the turbulent gang wars of the 1990s triggered calls from Russian nationalists to respond by intensifying attacks on Ukraine.
Pro-Kremlin political analyst Sergei Markov argued that the perpetrators of Dugina’s murder may have hoped to encourage division among those in the Russian elite who advocate a political settlement to end hostilities in Ukraine and even There are also supporters of tough military action.
Dugin, called “Putin’s brain” and “Putin’s Rasputin” by some in the West, has been a major proponent of the “Russian world” concept, a spiritual and political ideology that emphasizes the unity and unity of traditional values, the restoration of Russia’s global influence. gives. of all ethnic Russians around the world.
Dugin helped popularize the concept “Novorosia,” or “New Russia,” which was used by Russia to justify its 2014 annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula and its support of separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine. He urged the Kremlin to intensify its operations in Ukraine.
Dugin has also promoted authoritarian leadership in Russia and has spoken with disdain for liberal Western values. They are subject to US and EU sanctions.
His daughter expressed similar views and appeared as a commentator on the TV channel Zargrad, where Dugin served as editor-in-chief.
Dugina was herself cleared by the US in March for her work as editor-in-chief of United World International, a website that Washington has described as a source of disinformation.
In an appearance on Russian television last week, Dugina called America “a zombie society” where people oppose Russia but can’t find it on a map.