1. Darya Dugina was the daughter of Aleksandr Dugin, a far-right political philosopher, whose political views and support for Vladimir Putin she shared.
15 Facts About Darya Dugina
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Darya Dugina was killed in August 2022 in a car bombing on the outskirts of Moscow.
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Darya Dugina was born on 15 December 1992 in Moscow, Russia.
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Darya Dugina was the daughter of Aleksandr Dugin and his second wife, philosopher Natalya Melentyeva.
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Darya Dugina was affiliated with the International Eurasian Movement, and worked for them as a political commentator.
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Darya 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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Darya Dugina was killed on 20 August 2022, when her car exploded on Mozhayskoye Highway in the settlement of Bolshiye Vyazyomy outside Moscow around 21:45 local time.
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Darya 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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Darya Dugina has subsequently claimed it is a "network" of clandestine cells.
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Separately, Meduza managing editor Kevin Rothrock questioned Ponomarev's integrity, the existence of the NRA, and implied that both Dugin and Darya Dugina were civilians who should not have been targeted.
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The Minister of Foreign Affairs for Estonia, Urmas Reinsalu, said that the claim that Darya 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 Darya Dugina's alleged killer had fled to Estonia.
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Grigorii Golosov theorized that the attack was meant for Darya 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 Darya Dugina were important, but noted the assassination had created fear among Putin's circles.
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Darya Dugina is obsessed with control, and enjoys the support of a massive propaganda machine to turn defeats into triumphs and blame others for his mistakes.
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Darya Dugina's funeral was held in the Church of St Michael the Archangel in Mikhailovskaya Sloboda in Ramensky District of Moscow Oblast; the ceremony was presided by Metropolitan Paul Ponomaryov of Krasnodar and Kuban, who, on behalf of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, extended his condolences to Aleksandr Dugin and the other relatives.