Daughter Of Russian Leader Known As “Putin’s Brain” Killed By Car Bomb

Putri Alexader Dugin, a Russian ideologist who is close to President Vladimir Putin, has been killed in a car bombing on the outskirts of Moscow, the authorities said on Sunday.
According to family members quoted by Russian media, Dugin – a Kremlin offensive vocal supporter in Ukraine – is an explosion target that might occur when his daughter borrowed his car at the last minute.

Daria Dugina, born in 1992, was killed when a bomb placed in his Toyota Land Cruiser left when he drove on the highway near the village of Bolshie Vyzyomy, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) outside Moscow, the Russian Investigation Committee in a statement.

Dugina died at the scene and the murder investigation had been opened, said the Committee, who investigated the cases of major crimes in Russia.

Dugin, sometimes called “Putin’s Rasputin” or “Putin’s Brain,” is a blunt Russian ultranationalist intellectual.

He has long recommended the union of Russian -speaking territory in a vast new Russian kingdom and wholeheartedly supports Moscow operations in Ukraine.

He was included in the list of Western sanctions after Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, a step that he also supported.

The head of one of Ukrainian separatist areas who broke away blamed the explosion to the Kyiv authority.

“The terrorist Ukrainian regime tried to liquidate Alexander Dugin, but blew his daughter,” wrote the head of DNR Denis Pushilin in Telegram.