The explosion of a car on the outskirts of Moscow on Saturday night (20) killed the daughter of controversial thinker Aleksander Dugin, one of the main mentors of Russian territorial expansion. The identity of Daria Dugina, 30, was confirmed by an acquaintance of hers, the leader of the social movement Horizonte Russo Andrei Kranov, to the official Russian news agency Tass this Sunday (21).
According to Krasnov, the black SUV that exploded belonged to Dugin himself. It is speculated that he was the original target of the bomb. The thinker was at the crime scene shortly after the incident, visibly in shock, according to videos circulating on social media.
A report by RT, a state-funded Russian television network, claims that Dugina was driving the car on a street about 20 kilometers from Moscow when it exploded. The vehicle was engulfed by fire and crashed into a fence.
Rescuers who attended to her say she died instantly, but her body was disfigured by the fire.
Also according to RT, preliminary reports indicate that a homemade bomb may have caused the explosion, but the incident remains the subject of investigation.
On Saturday (20), Dugin taught a class at a traditional festival in the Moscow region and his daughter attended the event. Some of those present said that Dugin had initially planned to leave the festival with his daughter, but then decided to go in a different car.
Called by many “Putin’s ideologue” and compared in influence to the Brazilian Olavo de Carvalho, Dugin is the creator of the Fourth Political Theory, in which he defends an alternative to the three ideologies that dominated the 20th century: liberalism, communism and fascism.
According to his proposal, formulated in a 2009 book, the main subject of history would be the people, not the individual or the State. In the European context, it is reflected in “Eurasianism”, the expansion of Moscow’s presence to all regions of historical influence of the Russian people – no matter if they belong to other sovereign countries, such as Ukraine.
In the 1990s, Dugin was openly nostalgic for the Soviet Union, having been one of the founders of the National Bolshevik Party. His position shifted to the defense of “Eurasian space” at the beginning of this century, a period that coincided with the rise of Vladimir Putin to power.
The following decade was the closest between the two. The philosopher worked during this period on the concept of the “post-Soviet space”, which was absorbed by the president. Analysts say that, however, does not mean conquering countries – not even Ukraine, despite the advance of tanks towards Kiev.
