On Tuesday, August 23, in Moscow, at the Ostankino television center, a farewell ceremony was held for Daria Dugina, the daughter of Russian public figure Alexander Dugin.
Words of condolences from Russian President Vladimir Putin were read out.
During the ceremony, which lasted several hours, the coffin was opened.
Information about the death of Daria Dugina
On Saturday evening, August 20, near the village of Bolshiye Vyazemy (southwest of the Moscow Region), 29-year-old Daria Dugina (Platonova), the daughter of a public figure, the ideologist of “Eurasianism” Alexander Dugin, died as a result of an explosion of a Toyota Land Cruiser Prado car. This was reported by all leading Russian media.
Alexander Dugin and Daria Dugina were on the territory of the Manor in Zakharovo on August 20 at the literary and musical festival “Tradition” as guests of honor. In the evening they left the festival in different cars. Shortly thereafter, the car in which Daria was located exploded.
Daria Dugina graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University in 2015. She was a political commentator for the International Eurasian Movement, which is led by her father. The United Kingdom and the United States have imposed sanctions against it.
Alexander Dugin, a supporter of Eurasianism and Russia’s integration with the post-Soviet republics, is considered one of the ideologists of Vladimir Putin’s regime. It has been on the US, EU and Canadian sanctions lists since the mid-2010s.
The head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, said that “terrorists of the Ukrainian regime” were involved in the assassination attempt, and Dugin was their target. However, much indicates that it was Daria Dugina who was the target.
Leading Russian propagandists blamed Kyiv for the murder and demanded retribution for Ukraine.
Advisor to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak said that Ukraine was not involved in the death of Alexander Dugin’s daughter. “I emphasize that Ukraine, of course, has nothing to do with this, because we are not a criminal state, which is the Russian Federation, and even less a terrorist state,” Podolyak said.
A day later, the FSB announces the disclosure of the crime
On August 22, the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation announced the disclosure of the murder of Darya Dugin, daughter of public figure Alexander Dugin, accusing the Ukrainian special services of the crime, Interfax reports.
Moreover, the name of the “performer” is given: “Citizen of Ukraine Vovk Natalya Pavlovna, born in 1979, who arrived in Russia on July 23, 2022, together with her daughter Shaban Sofia Mikhailovna, born in 2010.”
The FSB also noted that Natalya Vovk, together with her daughter, managed to leave the territory of the Russian Federation, having left through the Pskov region to Estonia.
Judging by the statement of the FSB of the Russian Federation, Natalya Vovk rented an apartment in the house where Darya Dugina lived in Moscow, used a Mini Cooper car for surveillance, on which she changed numbers three times (DPR – E982XH DPR, Kazakhstan – 172AJD02, Ukraine – AH7771IP).
The FSB claims that it has been established: on August 20, Natalya Vovk and her daughter arrived at the Tradition festival, and after blowing up Dugina’s car, they left the territory of the Russian Federation.
Later, RIA Novosti reported that, according to the hacker group RaHDit (“Evil Russian hackers”), Vovk served in the Azov regiment. Soon the same agency published an interview with Natalya Vovk’s father, who specified that his daughter had not served in Azov, although she had undergone military training in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Alexander Dugin. Publicist and ideologue of “Russian Peace”
Alexander Dugin is primarily known as a publicist of predominantly “right” views, and also as one of the most famous propagators of the ideologies of the “Russian world” and neo-Eurasianism – concepts according to which Russia should take a dominant position in relation to its neighbors and expand its spheres of direct influence on the territory of the continent up to the Balkans and the Middle East, reminds DW.
In the 90s, Dugin was one of the members of the unregistered and later banned in Russia National Bolshevik Party, after leaving it due to disagreements, he became an expert adviser to the chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation. During this activity, in 2005, he presented the Youth Anti-Orange Front, an organization in which Oleksiy Arestovich, adviser to the Office of the President of Ukraine, also took part (in an interview with Meduza, he said that he attended Dugin’s events while on duty. Arestovich then worked in the main intelligence department of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine). According to Dugin, the organization was supposed to fight the influence of Western countries on Ukraine.
In 2014, Dugin was fired from Moscow State University, where he was the head of the department of sociology, after calls to “kill, kill, kill” Ukrainians made in connection with the incident at the House of Trade Unions in Odessa. After that, Dugin was included in the EU sanctions list, and in 2015 he was subject to personal sanctions by the United States and Canada. After the start of Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine, the German intelligence services reported that they had recorded contacts between Dugin and right-wing extremists in Europe, and that the nationalist views he propagated “laid the foundation for an unlawful attack on Ukraine.”
Daria Dugina, who supported her father’s ideology in her journalistic activities, was also included in the US and UK sanctions lists after the outbreak of the Russian war against Ukraine.