Darya Dugina's death in Moscow car bomb leads to more questions than answers
It’s unclear who ordered last weekend’s killing of Darya Dugina, the 29-year-old daughter of Russia’s leading far-right academic Alexander Dugin, in a dramatic car bomb last weekend. But in order to place the blame on Ukraine, the Russian government has deployed an elaborate but evidence-free narrative.
To hear Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) tell it, Ukrainian intelligence dispatched an assassin to kill Dugina, a state television commentator and staunch backer of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The assassin, fashionably dressed and with long blonde hair, spent weeks shadowing her suspect, even moving into Dugina’s apartment building. She finally managed to plant a bomb under the driver’s seat of Dugina’s Toyota Land Cruiser and detonate it in Rublyovka, one of the toniest suburbs of Moscow, as Dugina and her notorious father were returning from a festival.
The alleged assassin then high-tailed it by car to Estonia, making it past Russia’s Border Control (which is run by the FSB, the successor to the KGB) without incident. The getaway vehicle, a silver Mini Cooper, for which the assassin used three different license plates on her mission, is shown on CCTV having the underside of its hood and front-seat cup holder inspected before being sent on its way to NATO territory. The conveyance contained nothing of note beyond the assassin’s 12-year-old daughter and their family cat, both in the back seat and questionable accessories for an international murder plot.
The sole incriminating piece of evidence, the purported killer’s Ukrainian National Guard ID card — another odd choice for an covert assassination — was conveniently left behind in Moscow for law enforcement to discover. Never mind the apparently doctored image, as established by photo forensics: The ID also bears the insignia of Ukraine’s ultranationalist Azov Regiment, a frequent bogeyman of Russian propaganda efforts.
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