Killing Darya Dugina: own goal for Ukraine?

Neither father nor daughter was an important target in terms of their influence on Russian policy, which pretty much rules out any Russian motive for killing either of them.

Darya Dugina, who was killed on Aug. 20 by a car bomb, was the daughter of father Alexander Dugin—sometimes called 'Putin’s Brain' by the foreign media because of his alleged influence on the Russian president.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

August 24, 2022

LONDON, U.K.—“I am a political observer of the International Eurasianist Movement and an expert in international relations.... In this capacity, I appear on Russian, Pakistani, Turkish, Chinese, and Indian television channels.... The situation in Ukraine is really an example of a clash of civili...

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