Death of Daria Douguina | Vladimir Putin denounces a “despicable crime”

(Moscow) Russian security services on Monday accused Ukraine of having killed the daughter of a reputed ideologist close to the Kremlin, who died in the explosion of his car near Moscow, Vladimir Putin denouncing a “despicable crime”.

Daria Dougina was killed on Saturday evening in the explosion of the vehicle she was driving on a road near the village of Bolchiye Viaziomy, about forty kilometers from Moscow.

Journalist and political scientist born in 1992, she was the daughter of Alexander Dougin, an ultra-nationalist ideologist and writer promoting an expansionist doctrine and fierce supporter of the Russian offensive in Ukraine.

“The murder was prepared and carried out by Ukrainian special services,” the FSB said in a statement quoted by Russian agencies.

According to the same source, the car driven by Daria Douguina was trapped by a woman of Ukrainian nationality born in 1979, identified by the FSB as Natalia Vovk, who arrived in Russia in July with her minor daughter, born in 2010.

Still according to the FSB, this person had notably rented an apartment in the building where Douguina lived and she had gone to a conservative cultural festival on Saturday where the journalist was also present.

According to the FSB, this Ukrainian woman then fled to Estonia with her daughter.

In a condolence message released by the Kremlin, Russian President Vladimir Putin denounced a “despicable, cruel crime” which “prematurely ended the life of Daria Duguina, a brilliant and talented person with a truly Russian heart”. .

“As a journalist, scientist, philosopher and war correspondent, she served the people and the homeland with sincerity, illustrating with her actions what it means to be a Russian patriot,” he added.

Shock in Russia

The death of Daria Dougina caused a shock in Russia, awakening the painful memory of the multiple assassinations which bloodied the unstable period following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

It also undermines the efforts of the authorities and the government-controlled media, which are trying to convince that the offensive in Ukraine has no negative consequences for the Russian population.

However, the conflict has become increasingly visible in recent weeks, with in particular a series of explosions in Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Moscow where many Russians traditionally spend their summer holidays.

Questioned on Saturday by Russian media believing that the target of the car bomb that killed Daria Douguina was in fact Alexander Dougin, Ukraine denied any involvement on Sunday.

“Ukraine certainly had nothing to do with the explosion [de samedi]because we are not a criminal state”, declared an adviser to the Ukrainian presidency, Mikhaïlo Podoliak.

Promoter of “Eurasism”, a doctrine advocating an alliance between Europe and Asia under Russian leadership, Alexandre Douguine, who influences part of the French far right, has been targeted since 2014 by EU sanctions. taken in the wake of the annexation of the Ukrainian Crimean peninsula by Russia.

In recent years, Ukraine has banned several of his works, including Ukraine. My war. Geopolitical Journal and Eurasian Revenge of Russia.

Mr. Dougin, nicknamed by some media “the brain of Putin”, is sometimes presented as being close to the Russian president. But many observers relativize his supposed influence in the Kremlin.