On Monday, August 22, 2022, the Russian FSB announced the disclosure of the murder of Daria Platonova (Dugina). According to Russian authorities, Ukrainian special services are behind the crime. Kyiv denies these allegations. Meanwhile, the FSB of the Russian Federation has not confirmed the version that the assassination attempt was originally prepared on Daria’s father, Alexander Dugin, known as a publicist of predominantly “correct” views, and also as one of the most famous distributors of the ideologies. of the “Russian world” and neo-Eurasianism. All versions of the murder and the facts known at this time are in the DW material.

Explosion on the way to Conservatives Festival

Shortly before her death, 30-year-old publicist and active supporter of the Russian war against Ukraine, Daria Dugina, was at the Tradition festival. At this event, held in the Moscow region, she was present as a guest of honor, according to the FSB of the Russian Federation. Alexander Dugin, writer Zakhar Prilepin and director Eduard Boyakov performed at Traditions on August 20.

Daria’s Toyota Land Cruiser Prado exploded and caught fire as she was returning from the festival to Moscow on the Mozhaisk Highway. According to TASS, an explosive device was installed in the car during the festival – the car was in a parking lot open to all. The REN TV source said that in the last two weeks, surveillance cameras have not been working in this car park. Alexander Dugin later wrote that his daughter was killed before his eyes. Media previously reported that Dugin, in another car, followed his daughter down the same path.

Komsomolskaya Pravda, citing sources at law enforcement agencies, reported that the car belonged to Daria herself. In it, she came to the festival. TASS, citing Andrey Krasnov, head of the Russian Horizon movement, reported that the car belonged to the girl’s father, Alexander Dugin.

Versions of the FSB and former Duma deputy Ponomarev

Russia’s FSB accused the Ukrainian special services of Dugin’s death. The FSB named a citizen of Ukraine Natalya Vovk as the perpetrator of the murder. The woman reportedly arrived in Russia on July 23, 2022, along with her daughter Sofia Shaban. In Moscow, they lived in a rented apartment in the same house where Daria Dugina lived. Both, according to the FSB, were on August 20 at the Tradição festival. And on August 21, after the explosion of the car with Dugina, Vovk and his daughter left through the Pskov region for Estonia. At the same time, when entering Russia, the numbers of the self-proclaimed “DPR” were used, in Moscow – Kazakh numbers, and when leaving – Ukrainian, the FSB reported.

After the FSB report, pro-Kremlin telegram channels published a photo of Natalya Shaban’s (Vovk) identity card. Hacking group RaHDit (“Evil Russian Hackers”) claims that citizen Vovk allegedly served in the Ukrainian Azov regiment.

Former State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev, who now lives in Ukraine, shared his version of the organizers of the assassination on Aug.

According to him, the attack on Darya Dugina was carried out by the “National Republican Army” (NRA). On the air of the YouTube channel “Manhã de Fevereiro”, he stated that the representatives of this association themselves contacted him. “This action, like many other direct action actions on the territory of Russia in recent months, was carried out by the National Republican Army,” said Ponomarev, law “of all warmongers, thieves and oppressors of the peoples of Russia.”

Ponomarev said the victim of the explosion was actually Darya’s father, Alexander Dugin. At the same time, there was another person in the car with the girl, who also died, said the former deputy. Ilya Ponomarev did not provide any evidence to support his words.

Ukraine denies any involvement

Daria Dugina’s father blamed Ukraine for his daughter’s murder. His first statement on 22 August was posted on his Telegram channel by businessman Konstantin Malofeev, who sponsors the Tsargrad TV channel: “Our hearts yearn for more than just revenge or retribution,” the statement reads. our victory.”

Alexandre Dugin

Even before the FSB’s statement, the representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, commented on the “Ukrainian trace” in the murder of Dugina. “If the Ukrainian trail is confirmed”, and this version was expressed by the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin, and must be verified by the relevant authorities, “then we should talk about the state terrorism policy implemented by the Kyiv regime,” Zakharova wrote in your telegram channel.

Representatives of the Ukrainian authorities immediately after the murder of Daria Dugina denied the allegations against them. “I emphasize that Ukraine, of course, has nothing to do with this, because we are not a criminal state, which is the Russian Federation, let alone a terrorist state,” said Mikhail Podolyak, an adviser to Ukraine’s head of presidential office, said in the air of the national marathon. He called the murder of Alexander Dugin’s daughter evidence of an internal power struggle in the Russian Federation.