Darya Dugina, in what appears to be an assasination attempt on her father Alexander Dugin, died when her car exploded on a motorway about 20km west of Moscow at about 9.30pm local time.
Alexander Dugin is one of Putin’s leading aides, and so-called architect of the invasion of Ukraine, it is believed that he was present at the time of the bombing.
According to Russian media outlet 112, the pair had been due to travel back from an event on Saturday evening in the same car before he made the decision to travel separately from his daughter at the last minute.
Unverified footage posted on Telegram appears to show Mr Dugin watching in shock as emergency services arrive at the scene of the burning wreck of a vehicle.
Darya Dugina herself has been sanctioned by the UK and US. A prominent anti-West journalist, the UK Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation called Dugina a “frequent and high-profile contributor of disinformation in relation to Ukraine and the Russian invasion of Ukraine on various online platforms”.
She became chief editor of the United World International website, previously owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is suspected of interfering in the 2016 election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Alexander Dugin is known to have met with Trump advisor Steve Bannon in Rome in 2018 to discuss Russia’s future geopolitical relationships with the United States in the context of a Trump Presidency.
She was also a political commentator for the International Eurasian Movement, which is led by her father, and which follows the neo-Eurasian ideology, a mixture of Russian patriotism, Orthodox faith, and anti-modernism. The organisation opposes Western values such as liberalism, capitalism, and modernism.
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