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Darya Dugina
Дарья Дугина
Dugina in April 2022
Born	Darya Aleksandrovna Dugina (1992-12-15)15 December 1992 Moscow, Russia
Died	20 August 2022(2022-08-20) (aged 29) Bolshiye Vyazyomy, Odintsovsky District, Moscow Oblast, Russia
Cause of death	Car bombing
Other names	Daria Platonova
Alma mater	Moscow State University
Occupations	Activist journalist
Father	Aleksandr Dugin
Awards	Order of Courage (posthumous)

Darya Aleksandrovna Dugina (Template:Lang-ru; 15 December 1992 – 20 August 2022), also known as Daria Platonova (Template:Lang-ru), was a Russian journalist and political activist. She was the daughter of Aleksandr Dugin, a far-right political philosopher, whose political views and support for Vladimir Putin she shared.

Early life and education

Darya Dugina was born on 15 December 1992 in Moscow, Russia. She was the daughter of Aleksandr Dugin and his second wife, philosopher Natalya Melentyeva. In 2012/2013, while studying at Moscow State University, she was an intern at Bordeaux Montaigne University, specializing in Ancient Greek philosophy.

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. She was affiliated with the International Eurasian Movement, and worked for them as a political commentator.

According to the United States Department of the Treasury, which added her on the US sanctions 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. At the same time, she served as a press secretary of her father.

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. She mentioned that the war in Ukraine "serves to break the bridges of interaction between Russia and Europe, a struggle between two worldviews". In June 2022, she visited occupied Donetsk and Mariupol. 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". She responded by saying that she is an ordinary journalist and should not have been sanctioned.

Killing

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Dugina was killed at the age of 29 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. She was driving to Moscow after attending the annual festival "Tradition", which describes itself as a family festival for art lovers. The "Tradition" festival is held at the Zakharovo estate, approximately 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) north of Bolshiye Vyazyomy. Investigators said an explosive device was planted in the car. 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.

The Russian Federal Security Service claimed that Ukrainian special services were behind the killing, alleging that they hired a contractor, a Ukrainian national, Natalya Vovk, who escaped to Estonia after the explosion. Both Ukraine and Estonia rejected the accusations.

Condemnation

The head of the Donetsk People's Republic, Denis Pushilin, claimed that Ukrainian authorities were behind the explosion without offering proof. The Ukrainian government denied any involvement, saying that "We are not a criminal state like the Russian Federation, much less a terrorist one."

Dugina's father, Aleksandr Dugin, in a statement called the killing a "terrorist act executed by the Nazi Ukrainian regime" and wrote that "we need only our victory".

On 23 August, United Nations spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric called for an investigation on Dugina's killing.

Russian president Vladimir Putin sent a message of condolences to the family of Dugina, describing her as a "bright, talented person with a real Russian heart". Putin posthumously awarded Dugina the Order of Courage.

National Republican Army claim of responsibility

Ilya Ponomarev, a former member of Russia's State Duma now living in exile in Ukraine, claimed that a Russian partisan group was responsible for the attack, and that the hithterto unknown group calls itself National Republican Army (NRA) (Template:Lang-ru). Ponomarev claims the NRA is an underground group working inside Russia dedicated to overthrowing the Russian state. He has subsequently claimed it is a "network" of clandestine cells.

In Ponomarev's narrative to the Kyiv Post, the group has previously carried out anonymous arson attacks on military induction centers, then shifted to targeting Dugin and Dugina as "something high-profile for which they could become well-known." He elaborated that a contact in the group told him a week before the assassination to expect "something big," followed by instructions on the day of the event to "watch the news." Following news coverage of the assassination, Ponomarev claims that he was provided evidence of the group's responsibility. Ponomarev added that his sources believed two persons (i.e., both Dugin and Dugina) were in the targeted car.

Along with the claim of responsiblity for the assassination, Ponomarev aired the organization's manifesto on his media outlet "February Morning" (Template:Lang-ru) and hailed it as "a new page in Russian resistance to Putinism. New—but not the last."

Later confronted with the news that the Federal Security Service accused Nalaya Vovk, Ilya Ponomarev told the Meduza news outlet that his purported sources in the National Republican Army deny Vovk was the perpetrator while leaving ambiguous whether she may have had a role. In both Meduza and a message to his Telegram channel "Rospartisan" (Template:Lang-ru), Ponomarev appeared to take credit for Vovk's exfiltration from Russia at the request of unnamed "friends."

Following his announcement of support for the assassination and the NRA, Ponomarev claims to have been disinvited from a planned meeting of Russian dissidents.

See also

• Russian information war against Ukraine

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External links

• Media related to Darya Dugina at Wikimedia Commons

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