Saying he spoke for partisans of the underground National Republican Army, Mr. Ilya Ponomarev, a former member of the Russian Duma now living in exile in Kyiv, made the claim. Separately, a shadowy Russian dissident group issued its own claim of responsibility for the attack, saying it was carried out by an underground movement inside Russia itself determined to topple Mr. Zelenskyy, strongly denied any role by Ukraine in the killing, telling a television interviewer, “ Ukraine has absolutely nothing to do with this, because we are not a criminal state like Russia, or a terrorist one at that.” Dugina who said the philosopher and his daughter were supposed to leave together after attending a cultural festival Saturday night, but at the last moment, the daughter went off in the Toyota Land Cruiser alone. Russian investigators said Sunday morning they were treating the car bombing as a “premeditated” contract hit and pursuing all possible leads.īritain’s Guardian newspaper quoted a friend of Ms. Putin, he has argued that Russia should stand as a bulwark for traditional Christian values in a “clash of civilizations” against the secularizing influences of the West. Putin‘s decision to seize the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in 2014, an operation many see as a dress rehearsal for the decision this year to invade Ukraine.Īnd like Mr. Putin, has argued that Ukraine itself was culturally and politically an integral part of Russia and not a distinct nationality. Dugin has called for the unification of all Russian-speaking peoples - including large enclaves in Ukraine and other former parts of the Soviet empire - into one nation and, like Mr. Putin has long been a matter of dispute among Kremlin watchers, but many of his long-argued ideas have clearly been on display in the Russian president’s justification for his decision to invade.Īn ardent Russian nationalist, Mr. In 2022, UWI suggested that Ukraine would ‘perish’ if it is admitted to NATO,” the Treasury sanctioning notice read in part.
“Since at least 2014, has used, among other things, fictitious online personas that posed as U.S. Treasury officials described as a source of disinformation with ties to close advisers of Mr. The Biden administration in March sanctioned her for her work as chief editor of United World International (UWI), a website that U.S. Dugina was the target of Western sanctions for her work promoting hardline nationalist views and attacking the West. Dugina, “like her father, has always been at the forefront of confrontation with the West,” Tsargrad said in a statement Sunday.Īlso like her father, Ms. Dugina worked as a television commentator on the nationalist TV channel Tsargrad, where her father once worked as a senior editor. Dugin called “Novorossiya,” or New Russia, built on an expansive vision of Russia’s global role as a defender of traditional values and strong central rule over Russian-speaking lands. SEE ALSO: Donetsk chief said vote will be held to join Russiaīoth father and daughter were deeply involved in ultranationalist Russian thought circles, promoting what Mr.
“Vile villains! The Ukrainian regime terrorists tried to liquidate Alexander Dugin, but blew up his daughter,” Denis Pushilin, head of the breakaway Donetsk statelet that Russia has recognized since the war began, wrote on Telegram, according to Agence-France Presse.
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