Vladimir Putin’s “spiritual mentor” Oleksandr Dugin avoided a car bomb that killed his daughter Daria, reports The Sun with reference to Russian media.
The Russian philosopher and nationalist, dubbed the architect of the war in Ukraine and nicknamed “Putin’s Rasputin,” swapped cars with his daughter at the last minute on Saturday night, news.ro reported.
According to violinist Peter Lundström, he and his daughter were guests of honor at a traditional family holiday in Zakharovo and planned to go together. But Dugin jumped into another car and unwittingly avoided the assassination attempt, according to reports. Moments later, the far-right philosopher was photographed holding his head in horror as he watched the aftermath of the explosion.
Daria died on the spot after the explosion of the Toyota Land Cruiser Prado in which she was riding.
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She became a public figure in her own right as a “political analyst” and columnist for the pro-Putin publication United World International. A few hours before her death, Daria was photographed at an event in Zakharovo with her father, a philosopher known as “Putin’s brain.”
Local media quickly called the explosion an assassination attempt on a Russian author, and Denis Pusilin, the leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, said Dugin was the target.
In April, the UK and the US imposed sanctions on Daria for running “a platform for Russian ultra-nationalists to spread disinformation and propaganda”. In March, she appeared in an interview with Russian YouTuber Mykola Rosov, who called the West and Europe “totalitarian” racists, colonialists and Nazis.” She strongly supported the invasion of Ukraine, calling for “absolute unity” in her country, adding: “They are not allowed [alte] voices”.
Her famous father has no official role in the government, but is said to be a close friend and highly influential adviser to the Russian president. In 1993, he co-founded the National Bolshevik Party before becoming a prominent fascist figure and supporter of Putin. He has long called for an invasion of Ukraine and believes that Moscow has the right to rule all of Europe and Asia. His works, which were required reading for Russian soldiers, promulgate a paranoid worldview that promotes the idea that Moscow controls everything “from Vladivostok to Dublin.”
Dugin is known for his 1997 book Fundamentals of Geopolitics, which presents his ultra-nationalist and neo-fascist ideology of Eurasianism. He also pushed the extremist idea of a “new Russia” that is said to have inspired Putin to annex Crimea in 2014.
Source: Hot News RO
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