Yesterday the Russian journalist and political activist Daria Dugina died in Russia due to an explosion in her vehicle. Her body was completely burned.<\/p>\n
The daughter of a very influential character in the Kremlin<\/big><\/p>\n The events occurred near Bolshiye Vyaziomy, in the Moscow region. The deceased is the daughter of Aleksandr Dugin, founder in 1993 of the National Bolshevik Party (NBP)<\/strong>, an extremist organization that mixed communism, nazism and Russian nationalism. Today Dugin is a very influential figure in the Kremlin<\/strong>, mainly as a theorist of the so-called Eurasianism<\/a>, a nationalist ideology that gathers many aspects of the postulates of the NBP, mixed with a strong tendency towards conspiracy theories<\/strong>, theories that Dugin and his sympathizers use to extend Russian influence in the West.<\/p>\n Dugina supported the repression against the Russians who reject the invasion of Ukraine<\/big><\/p>\n Like her father, Dugina was a staunch apologist for the Russian invasion of Ukraine<\/a>, portraying her as a \"clash\" of civilizations between \"globalism\" and \"Eurasianism\", and even enthusiastically supported the repressive measures of the Putin regime against Russian citizens who reject the war<\/a>, arrived to affirm: \"There will be no purges. It will be a self-cleaning<\/strong>\".<\/em><\/p>\n A possible assassination attempt directed against his father: \"they had many enemies\"<\/big><\/p>\n About Dugina's death, Russian media Lenta.ru speaks openly about \"murder\"<\/a>, noting the following: \"Experts believe that the target was Aleksandr Dugin himself, but at the last moment he decided to go in another car<\/strong>.\"<\/em> Last night, the Russian newspaper Gazeta.ru notes that the car that He was driving the deceased was of his father<\/a>. This media has also published another news<\/a> about these events, pointing out the following: \"A friend of the deceased, Sergei Alexandrov, said that the death of Daria Dugina was an attack on her \"political position and patriotic views\"<\/strong>, reports the television channel REN.\"<\/em><\/p>\n In Telegram channel of REN<\/a> it is noted that Alexandrov claimed that both Dugin like her daughter \"had many enemies\"<\/strong>, and the following words of that friend of the deceased are quoted: \"There were different precedents by the enemies, in the context of those people who declared openly rejecting his position.<\/strong> And most of the time this was done anonymously.\"<\/em><\/p>\n The strange treatment of what happened in the Kremlin media<\/big><\/p>\n The most striking of these events has been the strange reaction of the official Kremlin media. The official agency RIA Novosti published a brief message on Telegram hours after the events<\/a>, when the news it had been spreading on social media for almost an hour now<\/a>. The text stated: \"A car caught fire on the road in the Odintsovo district of the Moscow region, a source told RIA Novosti.\"<\/em> No mention of Dugina's death. <\/strong><\/p>\n In turn, the official agency Tass took more than two hours to publish the news<\/a>, and after publishing it he has avoided any reference to a murder or an attack<\/strong>, speaking simply of \"an explosion\".<\/p>\n A mysterious series of murders of Russian oligarchs<\/big><\/p>\n When these two news items were published by official Russian agencies, Dugin's supporters were already spreading various speculations on social networks<\/strong>, blaming Ukraine, the CIA, the Israeli Mossad, the British MI6, the West... Interestingly, being so fond of conspiracy theories, none of the pro-Russian Internet users has suggested that it may have been an attack from within<\/strong>, a possibility that cannot be ruled out considering what has been happening : from January to May, seven Russian oligarchs were found assassinated<\/a>, some of them brutally. Crimes that until now are surrounded by mystery<\/strong>, without the perpetrators of these murders having been located to date.<\/p>\n An expert on Russian organized crime points to the FSB<\/big><\/p>\n Regarding the death of Daria Dugina in what clearly appears to be a murder, analyst Olga Lautman<\/strong>, who is dedicated to studying the links between Russian organized crime and government entities of the Russian Federation, pointed out last night<\/a>: \"Now the question is whether FSB<\/strong> <\/em>[Russia's top intelligence service, successor to the KGB] did this? Was her father the target?<\/strong> And if not FSB then who was responsible?\"<\/em> Lautman was also surprised<\/a> of that the news about what happened published by the Kremlin media do not cite the state security services themselves<\/strong> to report on Dugina's death, \"considering that it happened in Moscow\".<\/em><\/p>\n Ukraine denies any connection to Dugina's death and points to an internal Russian dispute<\/big><\/p>\n UPDATED 6:17 p.m.: Mykhailo Podolyak, Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, commented today<\/a> on Dugina's death with these words: \"Ukraine definitely has nothing to do with this<\/strong>, because we are not a criminal state, which the Russian Federation is, and even more so, we are not a terrorist state.\"<\/em> According to UKR Inform<\/a>, Podolyak has pointed out that \"there are now different political groups in Russia<\/strong>, which are fighting against each other to re-divide the internal ideological space within the country.\"<\/em><\/p>\n A terrorism expert talks about the possible involvement of the FSB in the crime<\/big><\/p>\n + UPDATED 6:17 p.m.: On this same fact, terrorism expert Kyle Orton has pointed out<\/a> this morning: \"the balance of probability for an assassination in Moscow is always the Russian FSB<\/strong>, possibly with the involvement of organised crime, not the Ukrainian SBU.\"<\/em> (the SBU is the Ukrainian intelligence service). Orton added: \"It is not *impossible* to construct a motive for the Ukrainian SBU trying to assassinate Dugin, but the SBU knows what apparently most Westerners do not: that Dugin is not a domestic power player<\/strong>, politically or ideologically, in the Kremlin. If the Ukrainians had been able to infiltrate Moscow with a hit team, there are so many much more operationally significant targets they could have chosen<\/strong>. Dugin seems unlikely.\"<\/em><\/p>\n
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