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The daughter of Alexander Duguin, one of the ideological leaders of the Russian nationalist movement and “Putin’s brain”, died this Saturday when the car he was driving exploded. The bomb placed under the vehicle -on the driver’s side- detonated around 9:45 p.m. local time in Bolshie Vyazyomy, southwest of Moscow. Daria Dugina (30 years old) was a journalist and political scientist who, like her father, supported the invasion of Ukraine. From kyiv they have denied any relationship with this incident and have associated it with the “power struggles” maintained by Russian political forces.
The Russian Investigative Committee (CIR) has called this attack a “premeditated crime”. This agency has opened a murder investigation into the death of Dugina, who was driving a Toyota Land Cruiser after returning from an event that his father had also attended. However, they did not return together, even though the vehicle was owned by Duguin. For this reason, Andrey Krasnov – a close friend of the family and head of the Russky Gorizont social movement – told the Russian agency TASS that the target was not her, but him.
“The car caught fire immediately (after the explosion). It lost control because it was driving at high speed and drifted to the opposite side of the road. It has been a very serious eventKrasnov asserted.
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Given Russia’s suspicions that Ukraine is behind this attack, Volodimir Zelensky’s chief adviser, Mikhailo Podolyakhas denied this Sunday that kyiv is involved in the attack.
“I stress that Ukraine has nothing to do with this, because we are not a criminal state like the Russian Federation nor are we a terrorist state,” Podolyak said in televised remarks on United News Telethon.
In addition, the Ukrainian adviser has pointed out that responsibility for the attack lies with the infighting between different political groups from the country. “Russia has begun to disintegrate internally,” she noted. According to Podolyak, due to this “ideological redistribution”, “informative pressure” on society is growing and the war in Ukraine is being used as an “escape route”, while “nationalist sectors are becoming more radicalized”.
War of clans
An amalgamation of parties occupies Russia’s political spectrum. The access restrictions to more than a dozen groups, the loopholes still present in the USSR and the immovable figure of Putin, among other reasons, have led to power struggles between the different ideologies. In fact, according to Ukraine, this infighting may be the reason that caused the attack about Dugina.
The main party in the country is United Russia, to which Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev belong. This conservative and nationalist party, founded in 2001, is the largest on the national scene, with more than 2 million members. They set themselves up as the dominators of the center and have tried to argue it on points such as the free market. One of the most common criticisms they have received is that of keeping their leaders in power.
communist party, a far-left party that was founded after the fall of the USSR to carry on Leninist and nationalist ideology, is the second largest party in Russia. And the majority of the votes is disputed with United Russia. In 2010, the group called for the “re-Stalinization” of the country.
Vladimir Putin attends a ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on June 22 in Moscow.
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Liberal Democratic Party of Russia It is another of the great political groups. The leader of this nationalist party is one of the most controversial politicians in Russia, Vladimir Zhirinovsky. His racist views, such as the call for Americans to preserve the “white race,” are at the center of his speech. The party was founded in 1991 after the fall of the Soviet Union. Broadly speaking, he advocates a mixed economy and an expansionist foreign policy.
A Just Russia, a center-left party, calls for a new socialism and presents itself as the party of the people. The parties of this heterogeneous group are made up of the Greens or the Patriotic Union. The platform supports a welfare state with equality and rejects capitalism.
The Other Russia, a group that brings together opponents of the Kremlin of the regime maintained by Putin and Medvedev. Among them, members of the extreme left and extreme right. This diverse coalition includes personalities such as chess champion Garry Kasparov. They defend federalism, the separation of powers and the independence of the media.
Opposition to Putin
A former member of the Russian Duma (Parliament), dissident Ilya Ponomarevwho was expelled for activities against the Kremlin, stated this Sunday that Russian partisans are behind the car bomb that has assassinated the daughter of Alexander Duguin, one of the closest political allies to Vladimir Putin.
From kyiv, where Ponomarev is based, the Russian dissident explained that the explosion on Saturday night was the work of the Republican National Armya clandestine group that worked inside Russia and whose main objective is to overthrow the regime imposed by Vladimir Putin.
“This action, like many other partisan actions carried out on the territory of Russia in recent months, was carried out by the National Republican Army (NRA),” Ponomarev said in a statement. a television channel opposed to Putin which he launched from kyiv earlier this year.
Alexander Duguin at a political event in Russia.
Reuters
“A momentous event took place near Moscow last night. This attack opens a new page on russian resistance to putinism. New, but not the latest,” he added.
Ponomarev has claimed that partisans living in Russia are ready to carry out more similar attacks against high-profile targets linked to the Kremlin. Included officials, oligarchs and members of Russia’s security agencies.
wave of outrage
Dugina’s murder has raised a wave of indignation in the country, especially in the political class, from where they have denounced that what happened with this attack should not go unpunished. the pro-russian Denis Pushilinleader of the self-proclaimed People’s Republic of Donetsk, has directly accused the kyiv government of being behind what happened. “In an attempt to eliminate Aleksandr Duguin the terrorists of the ukrainian regime They have killed their daughter,” he wrote on the Telegram social network.
Pushilin is not the only politician who has singled out Ukraine. The Russian Senator Andrei Klishas He has also described what happened as an “enemy attack”. Also, the Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin, has joined this condemnation. “You have to respond harshly and decisively,” she asserted.
Also on Telegram, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesmanMaría Zajárova, has warned that if the investigation of what happened confirms the “Ukrainian imprint” in the attack, it will be necessary to “talk about the State terrorism policy of the kyiv regime”.
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But this wave of opinions not only comes from the political sphere, but also from the world of culture. The well-known Russian musician Petr Lundstrem He has assured that the nationalist leader should have returned with his daughter in the same car after leaving the ‘Tradition’ festival, where they had attended as guests of honor. “Dugin was supposed to drive this car, but he finally got into another one,” she said. Finally, Duguin was a passenger in another vehicle behind his daughter’s and he has been seen noticeably distressed after witnessing the explosion.
Two Russian nationalists
Dugin is a critic of the United States with close ties to the Kremlin. He is sometimes nicknamed “Putin’s Rasputin” or “Putin’s brain”. The nationalist does not hold an official government position, and the extent of his direct relationship with the Kremlin chief is unclear. But the top Russian leader has integrated into his rhetoric many of Duguin’s ideas. A clear example is the reabsorption of the Ukraine into Russia.
His daughter, Darya Dugina, has also spoken publicly for the war in Ukraine and Russian expansion repeatedly. In March, the United States sanctioned her as part of its blacklist of Russian elites and disinformation outlets run by Russian intelligence. She was also sanctioned by the UK in July for her support of the Ukraine invasion.
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