The ultranationalist philosopher Alexander Dougin and his daughter Daria Douguina, killed in an attack on Saturday, shared the same ideology and significant media exposure in Russia, even if their proximity to the Kremlin is disputed. President Vladimir Putin nevertheless sent his personal condolences on Monday after the death of Maria Douguina, 29, denounced by Moscow as a coup by the Ukrainian secret services. He denounced Monday a “despicable crime” after the death of the daughter of an ideologue supporting the offensive in Ukraine in the explosion of his car near Moscow, which the Russian authorities impute to kyiv.
“A despicable, cruel crime prematurely ended the life of Daria Duguina, a brilliant and talented person with a truly Russian heart,” Vladimir Putin said in a condolence message released by the Kremlin and addressed to relatives. the young woman killed on Saturday. “As a journalist, scientist, philosopher and war correspondent, she served the people and the fatherland with sincerity, illustrating by her actions what it means to be a Russian patriot,” praised Vladimir Putin.
Killed on the return from a conservative cultural festival
Having studied in Bordeaux, in the south-west of France, Maria Douguina had notably frequented French personalities close to the patron of the far right, Marine Le Pen. Daria Duguina had also traveled to report in the separatist territories of eastern Ukraine, in the midst of a large-scale offensive by Russian troops, which the Dugins supported wholeheartedly. And, like her father, she had been sanctioned, at the beginning of March, by the United States.
They were returning together, but in different vehicles, from a conservative cultural festival in the Moscow region, when Daria Duguina was killed in the explosion of her car. In her last interview, recorded a few hours before her death, she denounced the “racism” of human rights, homosexuality, and assured that, thanks to the attack in Ukraine, “a dangerous Western totalitarianism had come to an end” .