- Leo Sands
- BBC news
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Daria’s father, Alexander Dugin, is a popular Russian ultra-nationalist thinker who is credited with shaping President Vladimir Putin’s worldview.
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The daughter of a shut ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin was killed close to Moscow.
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According to local media, Daria Dugin died right after her auto caught fireplace on her way household.
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It is unclear no matter if his father, the Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin, identified as “Putin’s mind”, was the intended goal in this incident.
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Dugin is a notable ultranationalist ideologue who is considered to be shut to the Russian president.
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In accordance to the Russian media system “112”, the father and daughter have been meant to return from the Saturday night time function in the same car, right before Dugin produced the selection to move separately from his daughter at the past moment.
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Unverified footage posted on Telegram exhibits Dugin looking at what is actually heading on in shock as crisis products and services arrive at the scene of the burning vehicle crash.
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The BBC was unable to independently confirm the footage.
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An unnamed regulation enforcement formal confirmed to the RIA news company that a vehicle caught hearth on a freeway in the Odintsovo district of the Moscow area, but did not deliver even more facts on the incident.
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So significantly there have been no official feedback from the Russian authorities.
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Despite the fact that he does not keep an official position in the govt, Dugin is a close ally of the Russian president and has been explained as “Rasputin Putin”.
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The philosopher’s daughter, Daria Dugin, was herself a notable journalist and commentator who supported the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Before this yr, she was punished by the British authorities who accused the 29-calendar year-old of contributing to the observe of “disinformation” on the Net in relationship with the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Alexander Dugin’s ultranationalist writings are credited with shaping Vladimir Putin’s worldview, and this is intently associated to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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The thinker experienced earlier expressed aid for Russian aggression against Ukraine and was sanctioned by US sanctions in 2015 for his alleged involvement in Moscow’s 2014 annexation of Crimea.
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