Some foreign analysts who specialize in issues related to Russia believe that Daria Dugina, the daughter of one of the ideologues of President Vladimir Putin, was probably killed by Russian special services.

Russia’s official version, presented on Monday by the FSB, the country’s Federal Security Service, is that the attack on Oleksandr Dugin’s daughter was carried out by Natalia Vovk, a Ukrainian born in 1979, who arrived in Russia in July with her 12-year-old daughter and spent the moon was preparing for the attack.

According to the Russian version of events, the alleged assailant was present at an event outside Moscow on Saturday night, where Dugin and her father were also present, and then set off a “controlled explosion” of the car in which Oleksandr Dugin was supposed to be.

Then she would flee from Russia to Estonia, crossing the border between the two countries.

Estonia strongly rejected it, with Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu saying in a televised speech on Tuesday that “we view this as one incident in a very long series of provocations by the Russian Federation and we have nothing more to say at this time.”

Estonian police said on Monday that Russia had not made any official request for Vovka.

Estonia denies that the alleged killer of Daria Dugina is on its territory

Indrek Kannik, director of the International Center for Defense and Security think tank in Tallinn, told reporters at the Financial Times that the attack could have been a “false flag” operation by Russia.

“Maybe it was an FSB operation because these people became a threat. At the same time, it is convenient to blame the Ukrainians. Now we see that Estonia can also be involved in this,” he says.

Historian Mark Galeotti, one of the world’s leading analysts of Russia’s problems, said on Monday that ultra-nationalists, among whom Oleksandr Dugin has the most support, are among the most ardent critics of the Kremlin, unhappy with the way things are going. military special operation” started on February 24.

“Ultimately, this is the crux of Russian nationalist criticism of Vladimir Putin: that despite his macho managerial demeanor, he is actually a weak, indecisive, corrupt and incompetent champion of Russian interests. How many less die-hard people will also experience it is unclear,” says Galeotti.

What foreign analysts say about the murder of Oleksandr Dugin’s daughter

Olga Lautman, a researcher at the Center for European Policy Analysis, a nonprofit institute in Washington, said the FSB was most likely responsible for planting the bomb that killed Daria Dugin.

“Ukrainian special services are blamed for this explosion. Who, if not everyone, could have predicted this? “Propaganda will then say that the operation was led by the United States and Great Britain,” Lautman quips.

She reminds that shortly after the explosion, RIA Novosti, one of the press agencies of the Russian state, quoted Denys Pushylin, a “puppet” installed in Donetsk to lay the “foundation of this lie.”

Lautman notes that the explosion took place in Moscow and that Russian news agencies could be referring to their own security services.

Anders Aslund, a Swedish economist and former Atlantic Council researcher who has written dozens of books on Russia, agrees with Lautman, saying the most likely scenario is that Dugin was killed on the orders of President Vladimir Putin.

Sergey Radchenko, a Russian historian of the Cold War and distinguished professor at the Herney Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and visiting professor at Cardiff University, says that given the FSB’s quick explanation for the killing of Daria Dugina, the options boil down to:

Kamil Galeyev, a Russian-born journalist and researcher at the Wilson Center, in turn says that it is almost certain that the murder of Daria Dugina was a “false flag” operation by the FSB.

He says his death will be used as a pretext for strikes, which are already planned to celebrate Ukraine’s Independence Day on August 24.

In turn, the Security Council of Ukraine on Tuesday accused Russian special services of the murder of Daria Dugina, stressing that Kyiv had nothing to do with it.

“The FSB did it, and now they will say that one of our people is involved. Our men and women have much more important tasks. We are not at all involved in the explosion that killed this woman, it was the handiwork of Russian special services,” said Council Secretary Oleksiy Danilov.

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