On Saturday August 20, a Toyota Land Cruiser exploded about 40 kilometers west of Moscow, the official Russian news agency TASS reported. On board was Daria Dougin, daughter of an ultranationalist ideologue close to Vladimir Putin, Alexander Dougin. “According to investigators, on August 20 at around 9:00 p.m. (local time) in the Odintsovo district near the village of Bolshiye Vyazemy, an explosive device, presumably installed on a Toyota Land Cruiser, exploded on the public road and the car caught fire. The driver died on the spot. We have established the identity of the deceased: it is the journalist and political scientist Daria Douguine”reports the press service of the Russian Investigative Committee of the Moscow region on Telegram.
BREAKING: Daughter of Aleksandr Dugin, who is often called “Putin’s brain,” killed in car explosion near Moscow pic.twitter.com/pSkBK8ENGO
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According to the first elements communicated by the agency CASS, Alexander Dougin was supposed to be in the vehicle, which belonged to him, with his daughter, but changed his mind at the last moment. The 30-year-old journalist, who borrowed her father’s car, was returning from the Traditsiya festival, organized in Zakharovo. According to Russian news agencies, it was Alexander Dougin who was targeted by the explosion.
The latter is an author considered the “spiritual guide” of Vladimir Putin and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In recent years, Ukraine has banned several of his books, including Ukraine. My war. Geopolitical Journal and Eurasian Revenge of Russia.
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