Hundreds of people gathered for her funeral in Moscow. Daria Duginahis daughter Alexander Duginwho supported the attack on Ukraine and died in an explosion in her car, Moscow blamed Kyiv for the attack.

Daria Dugina died on Saturday evening when the car she was driving exploded on a road near Moscow. He was 29.

A journalist and political scientist, she was the daughter of Alexander Dugin, an ultra-nationalist ideologue and writer, imperialist doctrine. Like her father, she strongly supported Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Less than 48 hours after the death of Daria Dugina, as the Russian special services (FSB) declared yesterday, Monday, that they had come to the conclusion that the attack was planned and carried out special services of Ukraine. Kyiv denies any involvement.

Today, hundreds of people, mostly relatives, friends, like-minded nationalists and politicians, said goodbye to Dugina in front of her coffin, over which hung her large black and white photo.

Her father, 60-year-old Dugin, who supported the creation of one of them for years. new Russian empire which would swallow up the territories of countries like Ukraine, he told the audience that his daughter died for Russia.

“If her tragic death had touched someone, she would have asked him to defend holy (Russian) Orthodoxy, the people and the Motherland,” said Dugin, dressed in black and visibly moved. “He died for Russia, in the Motherland and on the front line, which is not in Ukraine, but here.”

In a message of condolences, the President of Russia Vladimir Putin he complained “despicable, gross crime”who “prematurely cut off the thread of the life of Daria Dugina, a bright and talented person with a truly Russian heart.”

The President of Russia also honored her with an important posthumous award. Medal of the Order of Courage.

During today’s funeral, Mr. Konstantin Malofeeva close family friend and deadly business magnate, set the tone for many funerals followed by Russian politicians, hailing the slain woman as witnesswhose death made it even more important for Russia defeat Ukraine.

Daria Dugina’s funeral is taking place today at the Ostakinskaya TV Tower, where most of Russia’s state television is broadcast from.

Alexander Dugin, her father, says she would like people to “defend our faith, our Orthodoxy, love our Russian people” in her memory. pic.twitter.com/pwiH7HC3bT

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“Those who are fighting against us do not understand that the Russian people are not only those who are now alive. It consists of both those who lived before us and those who will live after us. And we will be made stronger by the blood of our martyrs. And thanks to the untimely death of our beloved Dasha (Daria), we will definitely be winners in this war.“, he decided.

The heads of parliaments of the three main pro-Kremlin parties delivered eulogies, hailing Dugin’s patriotism and promising that those who ordered and carried out her assassination would get what they deserved.

At today’s funeral, Orthodox tycoon Konstantin Malofeev sits next to Daria Dugina’s parents. pic.twitter.com/9vIshI9Zd8

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OUR Leonid Slutsky, leader of the nationalist LDPR party, predicted that the streets and squares would be named after Dugina and called for unity. “One country, one president, one victory,” Slutsky told the crowd.

Messages of condolence were also read from the Russian-backed leader in eastern Ukraine, as well as Sergei Mironovhead of the Just Russia parliamentary party, who called for the destruction of what he called the “regime” in Kyiv.

“Victory will be the best monument for Dasha,” Mironov said.