Headline Roundup • August 22nd, 2022
Daughter of Putin Ally Killed in Car Bombing
Summary from the AllSides News Team
On Saturday, the daughter of a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin was killed in a car bombing after an explosive device planted on the car she was driving reportedly exploded.
Darya Dugina, daughter of influential ultra-nationalist philosopher Alexander Dugin, was a 29 year-old journalist and a vocal supporter of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Reports suggest that her father may have been the intended target of the attack. Mr. Dugin was referred to as "Putin's brain" by multiple media outlets and has long expressed an anti-Western philosophy that has made him a significant figure in Moscow, despite holding no political office. Darya Dugina had been sanctioned by the United Kingdom as "a frequent and high-profile contributor of disinformation in relation to Ukraine".
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Monday that Ukraine was responsible for the killing, though no clear evidence was provided. Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, has denied the claim.
Dugina's death and Russia's reaction was a top story across the political spectrum Monday morning.
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Russia has accused Ukrainian special services of killing the daughter of one of Vladimir Putin's allies in a car bombing near Moscow at the weekend.
Journalist Darya Dugina, aged 29, died on Saturday when a vehicle she was driving exploded near Russia's capital.
Her prominent ultra-nationalist father, Alexander Dugin, said to be close to Mr Putin, may have been the intended target of the attack.
Ukrainian officials have denied any involvement in the explosion.
But Russia' Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Monday it had solved the case and -...
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Russian media has accused the United States of orchestrating the "attack" that killed the daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin's close ally.
"Daria Dugina’s death will likely rally the Russians who suspect Ukraine’s hand behind the attack," Rebekah Koffler, president of Doctrine & Strategy Consulting and former DIA intelligence officer, told Fox News Digital.
Dugina, journalist and daughter of Alexander Dugin, died Saturday evening in an explosion while driving her car along the Mozhayskoye Highway in the Moscow region after leaving a music festival. Authorities have said an explosive device planted under the car...
Russian authorities said Sunday they had opened a murder investigation after the daughter of influential, ultra-nationalist philosopher Alexander Dugin was killed by a car bomb on the outskirts of Moscow.
The Russian Investigative Committee said it believed someone planned and ordered the car explosion that killed Darya Dugina, based on evidence already collected from the blast. "Taking into account the data already obtained, the investigation believes that the crime was pre-planned and was of an ordered nature," the investigative committee said in a statement Sunday.
Dugina died at the scene after...
