Following the death of his daughter Daria, Alexander Dugin, the Kremlin’s domestic ideologue, has called on Russians to fight in the spirit of his ultra-nationalist and imperialist ideology.
“Our hearts thirst not only for revenge or retaliation. That would be too small, not Russian,” Dugin said on Monday in a message relayed on Telegram by his confidant, the oligarch Konstantin Malofeev. "We only need our victory, on the altar of which my daughter laid her life. So please win!”
Dugin called his daughter a “wonderful Orthodox girl” and a “patriot”.
Daria Dugina was killed on the night of Saturday to Sunday when her car was remotely blown up near Moscow. Dugina worked for the Russian state media and was considered an ardent supporter of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. According to the Russian intelligence service FSB, a Ukrainian, Natalia Vovk, was behind the attack. Vovk has since fled to Estonia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin condemned Dugina’s death on Monday as a “cowardly, cruel crime”. According to the state news agency, TASS, Putin has signed a decree to posthumously award Dugina the Order of Friendship “for courage and dedication in the performance of her professional duties.”
