Darya Aleksandrovna Dugina, known under the pen name Daria Platonova, was a Russian journalist, political scientist and activist.
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21 Facts About Daria Dugina
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Daria Dugina was the daughter of Aleksandr Dugin, a far-right political philosopher, whose political views and support for Vladimir Putin she shared.
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Daria Dugina was killed in August 2022 in a car bombing on the outskirts of Moscow.
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Daria Dugina was the daughter of Aleksandr Dugin and his second wife, philosopher Natalya Melentyeva.
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Daria Dugina was affiliated with the International Eurasian Movement, and worked for them as a political commentator.
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Daria Dugina was an outspoken supporter of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Daria Dugina visited the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, where she collaborated with British journalist Graham Phillips, who worked for Russian state media.
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Daria Dugina responded by saying that she is an ordinary journalist and should not have been sanctioned.
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Daria Dugina was killed on 20 August 2022, when her car exploded on Mozhayskoye Highway in the settlement of Bolshiye Vyazyomy outside Moscow around 9:45 pm local time.
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Daria Dugina was driving to Moscow after attending the annual festival "Tradition", which describes itself as a family festival for art lovers.
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Daria Dugina has subsequently claimed it is a "network" of clandestine cells.
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Daria Dugina elaborated that a contact in the group told him a week before the assassination to expect "something big", followed by instructions on the day of the event to "watch the news".
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Minister of Foreign Affairs for Estonia, Urmas Reinsalu, said that the claim that Daria Dugina's assassin fled to safe harbor in Estonia was "[one] provocation in a very long line of provocations by the Russian Federation" and rejected the claim that Daria Dugina's alleged killer had fled to Estonia.
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Russian president Vladimir Putin sent a message of condolences to the family of Daria Dugina, describing her as a "bright, talented person with a real Russian heart".
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Grigorii Golosov theorized that the attack was meant for Darya Daria Dugina to provide an appealing martyr for anti-Ukraine hawks, though he stressed that he would refrain from guessing whom these hawks are.
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Alexander Nevzorov wrote that neither Dugin nor Daria Dugina were important, but noted the assassination had created fear among Putin's circles.
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Pope Francis condemned the killing of Darya Daria Dugina and mentioned it as an example of the "madness of war", called Daria Dugina "an innocent victim".
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Daria Dugina has had documented contacts with Dugin, and described himself as a fan of Dugin's book, The Fourth Political Theory.
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On 23 August 2022, Daria Dugina's funeral was held at a TV studio in Moscow's Ostankino Tower, attended by far-right party leader Leonid Slutsky, propagandist Dmitry Kiselyov, and "Putin's chef", government and military contractor Yevgeny Prigozhin.
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