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Daughter of Putin Ally Killed In A Car Bomb

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Alexander Dugin, tagged as Putin’s ‘Rasputin’ has lost his daughter Darya Dugina to a car bomb meant for him, a few minutes after both swapped vehicles. Dugin who is an ultranationalist Russian ideologue and ally of Vladimir Putin had been attending a festival outside Moscow along with his daughter before the incident. The Russian Foreign Ministry had speculated that Ukraine might have been behind the attack, although, Ukraine denied any involvement, however, Vladimir Putin’s closest supporters have demanded vengeance calling it an assassination attempt and demanding the Kremlin respond by targeting government officials in Kyiv.

The political commentator, Dugin, although has no formal role in government, is a far-Right occult writer who used to edit the staunchly pro-Putin Tsargrad TV network, regarded as the Russian warmonger's 'guru advisor' and reportedly exerts heavy influence over him.

He is credited with giving new life to the term Novorossiya (New Russia), which was adopted by Putin to justify his annexation of Crimea in 2014. Dugin has long dreamed of an expansionist Russia, advocating for Russian rule 'from Dublin to Vladisvostok' in his 1997 book Foundations of Geopolitics. He once said not taking back control of Ukraine would be 'an enormous danger for all of Eurasia' - before he was sanctioned by the US in 2015 after allegedly recruiting fighters for Russia-backed forces in the country.

His daughter Darya was also sanctioned by the US Treasury after she became chief editor of the United World International (UWI) website - which was owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is suspected of interfering in the 2016 election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

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