“Debris scattered on the road”
According to Telegram channel 112, around 6 pm on Saturday, Alexander Dugin gave a lecture at the festival of Tradition in the village of Zakharovo. As the guest of honor there was his daughter Daria, a political observer of the International Eurasian Movement led by her father. Around 21:25 Daria left the festival in a Toyota Land Cruiser Prado.
“Previously, an explosive device was placed in the car in the parking lot near the site. Dugin planned to go with his daughter, but at the last moment got into another car,” the Telegram channel reported.
At approximately 21:35, Darya’s car drove to the Mozhayskoye Highway. A powerful explosion occurred near the village of Bolshiye Vyazemy in the Odintsovo urban district of the Moscow region. The car crashed into a fence after an unknown device exploded. A girl born in 1992 driving an SUV died at the scene. After the incident, traffic was closed to traffic in the Golitsyno area.
According to eyewitnesses, the explosion in Darya Dugina’s car occurred while she was driving on the Mozhaisk highway.
“Debris from the vehicle was scattered on the road. At first there was a version that a gas cylinder exploded in an SUV. At the moment, the priority version is the explosion of an improvised explosive device, ”he said.
According to information received, Alexander Dugin, who first arrived at the scene after his daughter’s car exploded, said, “There was a tragedy in front of my father.” A video appeared on the Internet, in which the philosopher, holding his head, looks at the burning car of Daria.
Now investigators are working with Dugin, bringing back all the circumstances of the incident. Law enforcement and criminologists at the scene of the explosion. Experts examine the body of the deceased and identify the source of an improvised explosive device found under the SUV.
According to Telegram channel Shot, the Tradition festival had two parking lots whose listings included Dugins. Father and daughter, who came to the scene, parked their cars where the entrance is free. There were no cameras around. According to preliminary information, the bomb was planted here.
According to the Izvestia newspaper, a woman working in a flower shop near the scene said she heard two explosions during the explosion in Darya’s car, and then smoke and flames engulfed the entire car. According to an eyewitness, she immediately called the fire department, but they said that they had already received a call to the scene.
Another eyewitness who saw the incident nearby told the broadcast that the explosion was “extraordinarily powerful”.
“I was watching TV and there was a blast – that’s all. There was an explosion outside the window, many glasses were stolen. “When I went out, I saw a burning car,” he said.
“Despicable Vagrants and Terrorists”
Main Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Moscow Region awakened criminal case “concerning the fact of a murder that was generally committed in a dangerous manner.”
“According to the investigation, on the evening of August 20, around 9 pm in the urban area of Odintsovo near the village of Bolshie Vyazemy, an explosive device, possibly placed on a Toyota Land Cruiser, exploded at full speed on a public highway, after which the car caught fire. The driver who was driving died at the scene. The identity of the deceased was established – this is a journalist and political scientist Daria Dugina, ”said the author.
The department announced that criminologists, investigators and explosives experts continue to examine the crime scene. A range of investigations will then follow, including forensics, explosives and molecular genetics.
DPR head Denis Pushilin, on his Telegram channel, described those who planted explosive devices in Daria’s car as “despicable scoundrels” and “terrorists of the Ukrainian regime”.
“Trying to eliminate Alexander Dugin, they blew up his daughter … In the car. Blessed memory of Daria, she is a real Russian girl! she wrote it.
In turn, Vladimir Rogov, a member of the main council of the administration of the Zaporozhye region, blamed the Ukrainians for the tragedy on the Telegram channel. According to him, “red lines have been crossed for a long time and many times.”
“I have no doubt that this was done by UGIL terrorists of the Ukrainian state of Ivano-Frankivsk and Lvov. The target can be both Dasha and her father, Alexander Dugin. This fragile girl led her own struggle against Ucrofascism and its Anglo-Saxon masters. He clearly understood that peace with the Ukronazi is impossible – as long as the UGIL exists, it cannot exist in principle, ”says Rogov.
He concluded that “Dasha’s tragic death draws a line under all illusions about the security of any place in Russia, even Moscow and the Moscow region.”
Andrei Klihas, chairman of the constitutional committee of the Federation Council, also expressed his condolences to the philosopher Alexander Dugin on the death of his daughter.
“My deepest condolences to Alexander Dugin. Terrorists, wherever they are, must be destroyed, both artists and customers, ”she wrote on her Telegram channel.
Alexander Dugin and his daughter
According to open sources, Alexander Dugin is a philosopher, political scientist, journalist, professor, founder of the neo-Eurasianism philosophical and political movement. He acted in 2009-2014. Lomonosov Head of the Department of International Relations Sociology at the Faculty of Sociology at Lomonosov Moscow State University.
Dugin is an honorary professor at the Eurasian National University named after LN Gumilev and the University of Tehran. In 2014, the American edition of Foreign Policy included him in the top 100 “global thinkers” of the modern world in the category of “agitators”. Since March 2015, Dugin has been on the US sanctions list in connection with the events in Ukraine. Canada and Australia also imposed sanctions against him.
Daria Dugin is the daughter of Alexander Dugin from his second marriage to the philosopher Natalya Melentyeva. Born in 1992, she graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University and worked as a political observer in the International Eurasian Movement.