The daughter of Alexader Dugin, a hardline Russian ideologue near President Vladimir Putin, has been killed in a automobile bombing on Moscow’s outskirts, government stated on Sunday.
According to own circle of relatives individuals quoted via way of means of Russian media, Dugin — a vocal supporter of Kremlin’s offensive in Ukraine — became the probably goal of the blast as his daughter borrowed his automobile on the remaining minute.
Daria Dugina, born in 199, became killed whilst a bomb located in her Toyota Land Cruiser went off as she drove on a toll road close to the village of Bolshie Vyzyomy, a few forty kilometres (25 miles) out of doors Moscow, Russia’s Investigative Committee stated in a statement.
Dugina died at the scene and a murder research has been opened, stated the committee, which probes predominant crime instances in Russia.
Dugin, now and again called “Putin’s Rasputin” or “Putin’s brain,” is an outspoken Russian ultranationalist intellectual.
He has lengthy endorsed the unification of Russian-talking territories in a big new Russian empire and wholeheartedly supported Moscow’s operation in Ukraine.
He became placed on a Western sanctions listing after Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, a circulate he additionally backed.
The head of one in every of Ukraine’s breakaway separatist areas blamed the blast on Kyiv government.
“The Ukrainian regime terrorists attempted to liquidate Alexander Dugin, however blew up his daughter,” DNR leader Denis Pushilin wrote on Telegram.
