Report - Russia Blames Ukraine for Darya Dugin's Death
From "The D Brief"_
Defense Intelligence Newsletter...
"August 22, 2022
Russia insists Ukrainian forces are behind the weekend death of a 29-year-old nationalist TV personality, Daria Dugina, who perished Saturday when her Toyota Land Cruiser exploded mysteriously while traveling in an affluent suburb of Moscow. According to Russia's state-run TASS, "a citizen of Ukraine identified as Natalia Vovk" was allegedly behind the apparent attack, and Russia's domestic spy service, the FSB, says she fled to Estonia afterward.
The FSB says a "remote-controlled" bomb detonated on Dugina's Land Cruiser, and shortly afterward the accused and her daughter crossed the border into Estonia. She allegedly drove a Mini Cooper with a license plate from "the Donetsk People's Republic—E982XH," before changing to Kazakh plates while in Moscow, and then to a Ukrainian license plate on the way out of Russia, TASS says.
Dugina was the daughter of a prominent Russian nationalist named Alexander Dugin, and some suspect the 60-year-old Dugin was the intended target of the apparent bombing—since he reportedly changed cars at the "last minute" ahead of the bombing Saturday, according to Russian newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta. The BBC reports Dugin is thought to be close to Russia's autocratic leader, Vladimir Putin; but exactly how close is unclear—despite breathless headlines and tweets claiming he is "Putin's brain" and "author of Putin's Ukraine strategy," and more.
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A second opinion: "Dugin was never close to Putin," writes Alexander Graef of the Hamburg-based Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy. "He has never been an advisor. He literally knows people, who know people, who have heard about others, who have met Putin. He is an extravagant ideologue, whose mysticism and shrill style have made him an ideal figure to play the media." Other Russia-watchers, like historian Sergey Radchenko, point their finger at the FSB; but no one truly knows for certain just yet."
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