A powerful explosion ripped apart an SUV near Moscow on Saturday night, instantly killing its driver. According to preliminary reports, the victim was identified as Daria Dugina, the daughter of controversial Russian thinker Alexander Dugin, who is sometimes painted in the West as one of the Kremlin’s “chief ideological masterminds.”
The incident took place on a highway some 20 kilometers west of Moscow around 21:45 local time, with witnesses claiming that the blast rocked the vehicle right in the middle of the roads, scattering debris all around.
The car then reportedly crashed into a fence, fully engulfed in flames, according to photos and videos from the scene.
Emergency services working at the scene said at least one person was inside the car and was instantly killed in the blast, a female whose body was recovered burned beyond recognition. However, multiple Russian telegram channels and media sources alleged that the woman inside the vehicle was a 30yo Daria Dugina.
Authorities have yet to confirm the identity of the victim, but Alexander Dugin was spotted at the scene soon after the incident, visibly shocked according to several videos circulating on social media.
Daria Dugina is a political commentator and daughter of Professor Aleksandr Dugin – a controversial philosopher known for his anti-Western, “neo-Eurasian” views, who has repeatedly been painted by Western media as one of the driving forces behind President Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy. In recent months, CBS dubbed him “the far-right theorist behind Putin’s plan” while while the Washington Post oped called him a “far-right mystical writer who helped shape Putin’s view of Russia.”
In Russia, however, the supposed shadowy puppet master is largely considered to be a marginal figure with some of his views deemed too radical even by staunch nationalists. While he has served as an advisor to several politicians, Dugin never enjoyed official endorsement from the Kremlin. Back in 2014, he was sacked from his job at Moscow State University after critics inrpreted his call to “kill, kill, kill” those behind massacres in Ukraine, such as the Odessa tragedy, as a call for a genocide of Ukrainians.
© 2022, paradox. All rights reserved.
