The daughter of the Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin, considered the ideologue of Vladimir Putin, died on Saturday night, allegedly the victim of an attack directed at his father, the Russian agency TASS reported on Sunday. Daria Dugina, 29, a journalist and political commentator, died in the explosion of the car he was driving in the Moscow region on his way to her house.

The Investigative Committee branch for the Moscow region said the explosion was caused by a bomb planted in the SUV driven by Daria Dugina, according to TASS.

Russian Horizon movement leader Andrei Krasnov, a family friend, said the car belonged to Alexander Dugin and that he would be targeted.

The ultranationalist philosopher and his daughter had been guests of honor at the “Traditsiya” festival [Tradição]”, held near Moscow, where Alexander Dugin gave a lecture, according to the British channel BBC. The two were supposed to return from the event in the same car, but Dugin ended up traveling in a different vehicle, according to violinist Peter Lundstrem, who also attended the festival.

An amateur video posted on social media, with an image reproduced by The Odessa Journal website, allegedly shows Dugin in shock near the burning car and fire trucks. The BBC, which is referencing the footage, said it had been unable to independently verify the video.

Investigators confirmed that Daria Dugina died at the scene, near the village of Bolshiye Vyazemy.

No suspects were immediately identified, but Donetsk (eastern Ukraine) separatist leader Denis Pushilin accused “Ukrainian regime terrorists” of having “tried to kill Alexander Dugin,” according to the US news agency AP.

The leader of the Eurasian Movement, Alexander Dugin, 60, has been described in the West as “Putin’s brain” and “spiritual guide” for the invasion of Ukraine, which the Russian president ordered on February 24, although it is unknown. if he maintains contacts with the Russian leader. . She, like her father, a supporter of the invasion of Ukraine, Daria Dugina, was sanctioned by US and British authorities, who accused her of contributing to disinformation about the war started by Russia.

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In an interview in May, she described the war in Ukraine as a “clash of civilizations” and expressed pride that she and her father had been sanctioned by the West, according to the BBC. Alexander Dugin was also the target of US sanctions in 2015 following Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014.

Dugina was a political commentator for the nationalist Tsargrad TV channel. “Dasha, like her father, has always been at the forefront of the confrontation with the West,” the channel said on Sunday, using the familiar form of the commentator’s name.

Ukraine denies involvement in the death of the Russian philosopher’s daughter

Ukraine has denied any involvement in the death of the daughter of Russian ultranationalist philosopher Alexander Dugin, considered the ideologue of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

I emphasize that Ukraine has nothing to do with this, because we are not a criminal state like the Russian Federation and we are not a terrorist state,” said Ukrainian presidential adviser Mikhail Podoliak, quoted by the Spanish news agency EFE.

Advisor to the president Volodymyr Zelensky commented that Russia has begun to “disintegrate internally” and that various groups are facing a power struggle. Within the framework of this ideological confrontation, “informative pressure” is growing in society and the war in Ukraine is used as an escape route, while nationalist sectors become even more radicalized, added Podoliak.

Podoliak’s comments came after the pro-Russian leader of Ukraine’s breakaway Donetsk region accused the kyiv regime of involvement in the suspected bomb attack that killed Daria Dugina. “In an attempt to eliminate Alexander Dugin, the terrorists of the Ukrainian regime killed his daughter,” Denis Pushilin wrote on the Telegram social network. Russian senator Andrei Klishas also called it an “enemy attack” and demanded that the perpetrators be brought to justice, according to EFE.