What the murder of Darya Dugina means for Russia
It could mark a return to the violence of the 1990s, when powerful factions in Russia battled for influence after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
In the hours before Darya Dugina was murdered in a car bomb attack near Moscow on August 20, her father, the Russian ideologue Alexander Dugin, called for a “substantial” transformation in Russia.
The entire country must be mobilised to fight “to the end” in Ukraine, he insisted, in a war he views as a civilisational struggle against the West. He said the Kremlin must wake up to the scale of the challenges it faced. “Let the old regime bury its dead,” Dugin wrote on social media. “A new Russian time is coming.”
New Statesman
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