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Death of ultra-nationalist’s daughter ‘speaks to growing instability within Russia itself’
Senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, Mark Galeotti, has been speaking to Sky News after the daughter of an ultra-nationalist
Russian ideologue was killed in a suspected car bomb.
Darya Dugina, daughter of Alexander
Dugin, was killed on Saturday evening after a suspected
explosive device blew up the Toyota Land Cruiser she was
driving, investigators said.
The Russian foreign ministry has speculated that Ukraine might
have been behind the attack.
Speaking on the attack, Mr Galeotti, said “hard to explain” assassinations were a feature of when Russia or the Russian elite was “divided and in crisis behind the scenes”.
He said: “I think this speaks to a growing instability within Russia itself.”
Asked about what was known about Ms Dugina, he said she had become quite a prominent journalist in the country and worked for a news outlet that it is claimed was run by a man who is under sanctions in the UK for pumping out disinformation.
“This is someone who, again, has all kinds of tight links with people around the Kremlin and also who espouse the same kind of extreme nationalist position as Dugin himself,” he said.
“So, it may well be that she made herself a target, but given the situation, it’s more likely that it was her father.”
Speaking on how likely it was that Ukraine had carried out the attack, Mr Galeotti said: “I mean, on one level, you’d think that the Ukrainians have the most reason to dislike and despise Dugin, who has been a cheerleader for this war and frankly wanted it to happen beforehand.
“But on the other hand, this is no small feat. To be able to actually mount an assassination operation in the heart of Russia, which is, after all, a security state, and then to exfiltrate whoever was involved, get them out of the country without there being any traces.
“It’s hard to see that they would have thought that if they were going to target one person in Moscow that Dugin would be the man they would go for.
“This is why we have so many other theories about the fact that it was actually the state because they wanted to make Dugin into a martyr or whatever else.”
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