'She died for Russia' - Putin ally Dugin speaks at service to daughter killed in Moscow car bomb attack

Record ID: 1685840

  • Title: 'She died for Russia' - Putin ally Dugin speaks at service to daughter killed in Moscow car bomb attack
  • Date: 23rd August 2022
  • Summary: PORTRAIT OF DUGINA
  • Embargoed: 6th September 2022 09:06
  • Keywords: Dugin Russia Ukraine car bomb crisis
  • Location: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
  • City: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
  • Country: Russia
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Europe,Editors' Choice
  • Reuters ID: LVA002006623082022RP1
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  • Story Text:A memorial service to Darya Dugina, the daughter of an ultra-nationalist Russian ideologue who was killed in a suspected car bomb attack, took place in Moscow on Tuesday (August 23). 
    Speaking at the service, Dugina's father Alexander Dugin - a vocal supporter of both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Moscow's "special military operation" in Ukraine - said that only Russian victory in Ukraine could justify his daughter's death. 
    "She lived in the name of victory, and she died in the name of victory," Dugin told those gathered at the service, which was held in Moscow's Ostankino television centre.
    Dugin has long advocated for the unification of Russian-speaking and other territories in a vast new Russian Empire.
    Russia's Federal Security Service has accused Ukraine's secret services of killing Darya Dugina in a car bomb attack near Moscow on August 20 that Russian President Vladimir Putin later described as "evil".
    Ukraine has denied involvement in the attack.
    Dugin was on a U.S. sanctions list, and the extent of his influence over the Russian president has been a subject of great speculation, with some Russia watchers asserting that his sway is significant and others calling it minimal.
    Darya Dugina, who also went by the surname Platonova, broadly supported her father's ideas and appeared on state TV in her own right to offer support for Russia's actions in Ukraine.
    In a statement in March, the U.S. Treasury said Dugina, the chief editor of the United World International website, which has suggested Ukraine would "perish" if admitted to the NATO military alliance, had herself been put on a U.S. sanctions list.
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