The bombing of Darya Dugina is a mystery: Russian war propagandist and daughter of ultra-nationalist ideologue Alexander Dugin died on Saturday when her car exploded. Russian state propaganda wants to blame the assassination attempt on “Ukrainian terrorists”. A former member of the Russian parliament living in Ukraine claims Russian partisans are behind it.
A “National Republican Army” (NRA) took responsibility for the murder of Dugina, Ilya Ponomaryov said on his YouTube channel on Sunday evening. “Today we have woken up to a new era,” Ponomarev said in the published video message. Russian NRA partisans blew up the car of “Russian fascist leader” Alexander Dugin outside Moscow the night before, opening “a new page in the Russian resistance to Putinism,” he said.
The attack would have been “revenge”.
The ex-politician said Dugin’s daughter had called for the extermination of Ukrainians. The attack on her was an “act of revenge” because she justified the “terrorist act” in the Olenivka prison camp, in which 50 prisoners of war of the Azov regiment were blown up. However, according to Russian propaganda, the Donetsk prison was hit by a Ukrainian rocket attack.
Ponomarev, who offered no evidence for his account, eventually read a manifesto from the NRA, a group previously completely unknown. President Putin was declared a “power usurper and a war criminal” who violated the constitution, started a war between Slavic brother nations and sent Russian soldiers to certain and senseless death, it said.
Putin would be impeached and destroyed along with government officials, businessmen associated with the regime and employees of state security structures, read leftist politician Ponomaryov. In 2014, he was the only member of the Russian State Duma to vote against the annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula.
Secret Service Victim?
Many Russian observers question the credibility of Ponomarev’s statement that Russian partisans were behind the attack on Dugina. For example, right-wing conservative journalist Julija Latynina speculated on Twitter that the ex-politician would have been the victim of a large-scale operation by Russian secret services, with the help of which critics of Vladimir Putin would be tracked down and imprisoned.
Source: Krone
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