“The last time I spoke to her she told me: Dad, I feel like a warrior,” says the ultra-nationalist intellectual before hundreds of people gathered in Moscow at an unofficial state funeral
Hundreds of people gathered in Moscow on Tuesday at an unofficial state funeral to bid farewell to Daria Dúguina, daughter of prominent Russian ultranationalist intellectual Alexander Dugin, who was killed in a bomb attack on Saturday that Russia attributes to Ukraine. kyiv denies any responsibility in the death and rejects the accusation.
Dugin, a supporter of the Ukraine invasion who says he is close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, may have been the intentional target of the attack that killed his 29-year-old daughter.
Parallel to the funeral, the head of Kremlin diplomacy, Sergei Lavrov, assured that there will be “no mercy” for the murderers. “It was a barbaric crime for which there can be no forgiveness. There can be no mercy for the organizers, the sponsors and the executors,” he told a news conference.
Dúguina’s relatives, many with flowers, paid their respects in a hall at Moscow’s Ostankino TV center, where a black-and-white portrait of her was placed over her open coffin.
“A heroine”
Duguin and his wife, both dressed in black, sat by their daughter’s coffin. “She died for the people, for Russia, on the front. The front is here«, expressed the father at the beginning of the ceremony. “I wasn’t afraid, really, and the last time I talked to her, she told me: Dad, I feel like a warrior, I feel like a heroine,” she added during a ceremony that lasted about two hours, as she has collected the TASS news agency.
During the funeral, the politician Leonid Slutski, as well as the Vice President of the Duma, Sergei Neverov, and the founder and owner of the Tsargrad television channel, Konstantin Malofiv, also took part.
Dugin, 60, came to prominence in the 1990s in the intellectual chaos that arose after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He had been an anti-communist dissident in the last years of the USSR. The intellectual with the bushy beard and the air of a prophet claims to have ideological influence over Putin.
Russia’s ruler has become increasingly hostile to the West and Dugin, dubbed ‘Putin’s Rasputin’ or ‘Putin’s mastermind’, is seen by some as having some responsibility for this.
Putin never publicly endorsed him, but on Monday the Kremlin released a message of condolences from the president, in which he denounced the “vile crime” that killed Dúgina, a media figure on pro-Kremlin televisions such as Russia Today and Tsargrad. The president remembered the victim as a “brilliant” woman “with a true Russian heart.”
Dúguina died on Saturday while driving on a highway outside Moscow when a bomb planted in his vehicle exploded. Russia claims that the Ukrainian intelligence services are responsible for the attack, something that kyiv denies. However, the Federal Security Service (FSB) even pointed to a woman who allegedly fled to Estonia as the perpetrator. The alleged murderer, a Ukrainian citizen named Natalia Vovk Pavlova, arrived in Russia on July 23 along with her 12-year-old daughter, Sofia Shaban Mijailovna.
After this version by the Kremlin authorities about the murder of the journalist, the Estonian Foreign Minister, Urmas Reinsalu, considered this investigation by Russian intelligence a “provocation”, which, according to Reinsaluy, is trying to pressure Tallinn to to change its current policy against Moscow.
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Estonia has explained, according to diplomatic sources consulted by Europa Press, that it can share information about people who enter or leave the country as long as they are cases “prescribed by law.” Thus, “the accusation of the Russian FSB”, which came to them through a “propaganda channel of the Kremlin”, “is not one of them”.
Tallinn prohibits the entry into the country of those Russian citizens who have Schengen visas issued by Tallinn. Vovk entered the country in a Mini Cooper car with a Donetsk license plate, although it is not clear what type of visa he was carrying.
In fact, the adviser to the Presidency of Ukraine, Mikhailo Podoliak, has already questioned the Russian propaganda of Moscow’s “fictional world” on his official Twitter profile, assuring that the Estonian visa has not been found.
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