Car blast kills feminine child of Russian known while 'Putin's brain'

Car blast kills feminine child of Russian known while 'Putin's brain'

MOSCOW (AP) — The feminine child of an influential Russian political theorist regularly referred to while "Putin's brain" was killed inside a automobile bombing on the outskirts of Moscow, authorities said Sunday.

The Moscow branch of the Russian Investigative Committee said preliminary details indicated 29-year-old TV commentator Daria Dugina was killed by an explosive planted inside the SUV she was driving Saturday night.

There was no indeed indeed immediate claim of responsibility. But the bloodshed gave rise to suspicions that the intended mark was her father, Alexander Dugin, a nationalist philosopher accompanied by every one one other accompanied by writer.

Dugin is a prominent proponent of the "Russian world" concept, a non-material accompanied by every one one other accompanied by political ideology that emphasizes orthodox values, the restoration of Russia's ability accompanied by every one one other accompanied by the unity of all ethnic Russians all over the world. He is excessively a vehement supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin's go sending troops into Ukraine.

The detonation took place while his feminine child was returning from a ethnic fete she had attended accompanied by him. Russian media reports cited witnesses while saying the SUV belonged to Dugin accompanied by every one one other accompanied by that he had decided at the last minute to journey inside another vehicle.

The automobile bombing, uncommon for Moscow, is probable to aggravate tensions inside the centre of Russia accompanied by every one one other accompanied by Ukraine.

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Denis Pushilin, president of the separatist Donetsk People's Republic, the pro-Moscow neighbourhood that is a focus of Russia's fighting inside Ukraine, blamed the blast on "terrorists of the Ukrainian regime, trying to kill Alexander Dugin."

Mykhailo Podolyak, an counsellor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, denied Ukrainian involvement, saying, "We are not a criminal state, different from Russia, accompanied by every one one other accompanied by certainly not a terrorist state."

Political analyst Abbas Gallyamov, a former speechwriter for Putin, called the assault "an lay clasp of deed of intimidation" aimed at Kremlin loyalists.

To them, he said, "this is a symbolic act, demonstrating that hostilities have been confidently transferred to the territory of Russia, which means that this is no indeed indeed longer an abstract war that you watch on TV," he said. "This is by that hour dated happening inside Russia. Not only Crimea is actuality bombed, nevertheless terrorist attacks are by that hour dated actuality carried not here inside the Moscow region."

While Dugin's exact ties to Putin are unclear, the Kremlin regularly echoes rhetoric from his writings accompanied by every one one other accompanied by appearances on Russian condition TV. He helped popularize the "Novorossiya," or "New Russia" idea that Russia used to justify the 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula accompanied by every one one other accompanied by its support of separatist rebels inside eastern Ukraine.

He promotes Russia while a country of piety, orthodox values accompanied by every one one other accompanied by authoritarian leadership, accompanied by every one one other accompanied by disdains Western tolerant values.

His feminine child expressed similar views accompanied by every one one other accompanied by had appeared while a commentator on the nationalist TV strait Tsargrad, where Dugin had served while leader editor.

Dugina herself was sanctioned by the United States inside March for her labour while leader editor of United World International, a website that the U.S. described while a disinformation source. The sanctions announcement cited a United World article this year that contended Ukraine would "perish" if it were admitted to NATO.

Dugina, "like her father, has always been at the forefront of confrontation accompanied by the West," Tsargrad said Sunday.

Car blast kills feminine child of Russian known while 'Putin's brain'