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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming conventions, the patronymic is Aleksandrovna and the family name is Dugina.

Darya Dugina
Дарья Дугина
2022-04-06. Дарья Дугина 2 (cropped).jpg
Dugina in 2022
Born
Darya Aleksandrovna Dugina

(1992-12-15)15 December 1992
Moscow, Russia
Died20 August 2022(2022-08-20) (aged 29)
Bolshiye Vyazyomy, Odintsovsky District, Moscow Oblast, Russia
Cause of deathCar bombing
Other namesDaria Platonova
Alma materMoscow State University
Occupation
  • Activist
  • journalist
  • Political scientist[1]
Parent(s)
AwardsOrder of Courage (posthumous)

Darya Aleksandrovna Dugina (Russian: Дарья Александровна Дугина; 15 December 1992 – 20 August 2022), also known under the pen name Daria Platonova (Russian: Дарья Платонова), was a Russian journalist, political scientist[1] and activist.

She was the daughter of Aleksandr Dugin, a far-right political philosopher, whose political views and support for Vladimir Putin she shared.[2][3][4]

She was killed in August 2022 in a car bombing on the outskirts of Moscow.

Early life and education

Darya Dugina was born on 15 December 1992 in Moscow, Russia.[5] She was the daughter of Aleksandr Dugin and his second wife, philosopher Natalya Melentyeva.[6] In 2012/2013, while studying at Moscow State University, she was an intern at Bordeaux Montaigne University, specializing in Ancient Greek philosophy.[7] Her MSU degree "focused on the political philosophy of late Neo-Platonism".[8]

Career and activism

After university, she worked as a journalist, writing for the state-controlled media outlet RT and the pro-Kremlin conservative channel Tsargrad, using the pen name Daria Platonova.[5][9] She was affiliated with the International Eurasian Movement, and worked for them as a political commentator.[10][11]

According to the United States Department of the Treasury, which added her to the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List on 3 March 2022, she was the chief editor of a disinformation website called United World International which states it is owned by Putin ally Yevgeny Prigozhin, who also controls the state-backed Wagner Group.[12][13][14][15] At the same time, she served as a press secretary of her father.[7]

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

Dugina was an outspoken supporter of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. In particular, she claimed that the war crimes against Ukrainian civilians by the Russian army during the invasion were staged.[16][17] She mentioned that the war in Ukraine "serves to break the bridges of interaction between Russia and Europe, a struggle between two worldviews".[18] In June 2022, she visited occupied Donetsk and Mariupol.[9] On 4 July 2022, she was sanctioned by the British government, which accused her of being a "frequent and high-profile contributor of disinformation in relation to Ukraine and the Russian invasion of Ukraine on various online platforms".[19][20][9][21] She responded by saying that she is an ordinary journalist and should not have been sanctioned.[7] In June, Dugina visited the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, where she collaborated with British journalist Graham Phillips, who also worked for Russian state media.[22]

Killing

Main article: Killing of Darya Dugina

Dugina was killed on 20 August 2022, when her car exploded on Mozhayskoye Shosse in the settlement of Bolshiye Vyazyomy outside Moscow around 9:45 p.m. local time.[2][23] She was driving to Moscow after attending the annual festival "Tradition", which describes itself as a family festival for art lovers.[2] The "Tradition" festival is held at the Zakharovo estate,[2] approximately 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) north of Bolshiye Vyazyomy. Investigators said an explosive device was planted in the car.[24] It is unclear whether she was targeted deliberately, or whether her father, who had been expected to travel with her but switched to another car at the last minute, was the intended target,[2] or whether the intention might have been to kill both.[25]

Reaction

The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) claimed that Ukrainian special services were behind the killing, alleging that they hired a contractor, a Ukrainian national, who escaped to Estonia after the explosion.[26][27] According to the FSB, they rented an apartment in the same building where Dugina lived after arriving in Russia the previous month, and were present at the same festival Dugina attended before she was killed.[28] The name of the second alleged accomplice was released by FSB on 29 August 2022.[29]

The Ukrainian government denied any involvement, with Ukrainian presidential advisor Mykhailo Podolyak stating that "we are not a criminal state like the Russian Federation, much less a terrorist one",[2][30][31][32] and later blaming the killing on infighting between Russian security agencies.[28] Estonia rejected the claim that Dugina's alleged killer had fled to Estonia.[33]

In a weekly address, Pope Francis called Dugina "an innocent victim". In a highly unusual move, Andrii Yurash, the Ukrainian ambassador to the Holy See, in a tweet criticised the Pope calling the statement "disappointing".[34] In another unusual move, the nuncio representing the Pope in Ukraine was summoned to the Foreign Ministry in Kyiv where the minister expressed "profound disappointment".[35]

On 21 August 2022 exiled former parliamentarian Ilya Ponomarev, via services read aloud a manifesto of the National Republican Army (NRA) calling for armed action against the regime. The manifesto was released following the killing of Darya Dugina, for which the NRA also issued a claim of responsibility but which has yet to be independently confirmed. Ponomarev endorsed both the assassination and the manifesto.[36][37]

The following day, the anti-Putin exile group the Russian Action Committee blacklisted Ponomarev from attending the Free Russia Congress on grounds that he had "called for terrorist attacks on Russian territory." The Committee's statement also implied that Dugina was a "civilian" who "did not take part in the armed confrontation," and similarly condemned the mockery of Alexandr Dugin following the attack as "a demonstrative rejection of normal human empathy for the families of the victims."[38][39][importance?]

Funeral

On 23 August 2022, Dugina's funeral was held at a TV studio in Moscow's Ostankino Tower, attended by far-right party leader Leonid Slutsky, propagandist Dmitry Kiselyov, and "Putin's chef", government and military contractor Yevgeny Prigozhin.[40] On the same day, the Russian President Vladimir Putin posthumously awarded her with the Order of Courage for "courage and selflessness shown in the performance of her professional duty".[41][42]

See also

References

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