Russia probes car bomb that killed daughter of Vladimir Putin ideologist

Bloomberg

The daughter of a prominent Moscow nationalist who advocated a “Russian World” ideology to justify expansion by the Kremlin, and who’d herself been sanctioned by the US and UK, was killed in a car bombing.
Darya Dugina, 29, whose father is far-right political theorist Alexander Dugin, died when the Toyota SUV she was driving exploded about 20km (12 miles) west of the capital on Saturday night, according to Russia’s Investigative Committee. A family friend, Andrey Krasnov, told the state news service Tass that the vehicle belonged to Dugin, who had intended to travel home with his daughter from an event but “went in a different way.”
Dugin, a prolific author on geopolitics and a harsh critic of the US and Europe, is an outspoken advocate of a policy of Eurasianism, viewing Russia as an empire whose Orthodox faith and values are in competition with the liberal West.
He argues Russia has a mission to unite the historical Russian-speaking world under Kremlin rule, and has been a vocal advocate of Russian control over Ukraine.
While Dugin has had limited influence within the Kremlin, President Vladimir Putin wrote a lengthy essay in 2021 on “the historical unity of Russians and Ukrainians” in which he dismissed modern Ukraine as “entirely the product of the Soviet era.”
Russian investigators are working to establish who may have ordered and carried out Saturday’s killing.