Hundreds mourn Russian nationalist's daughter killed in car bomb

'She died for the people,' said her father Alexander Dugin

Russia vowed "no mercy" for the killers of Daria Dugina, the daughter of an ultranationalist intellectual, as hundreds gathered for her funeral following her death in a car bomb blast over the weekend.

"I believe that this is a barbaric crime for which there is no forgiveness," Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told journalists on Tuesday, calling for "no mercy" for those responsible. 

Alexander Dugin -- a vocal supporter of the Kremlin's military campaign who has claimed to be close to President Vladimir Putin -- may have been the intended target of the attack that killed his 29-year-old daughter.

Dugin and his wife, both dressed in black, sat next to their daughter's coffin.

"Since childhood, among her first words -- that we taught her of course -- were Russia, our state, our people, our empire," he added. 

- FSB accuses Ukraine -

It said the perpetrator had rented an apartment in the same building as Dugina and followed her in a car, suggesting that Dugina was the intended victim.

The US Department of State said on Monday that it condemned targeting civilians, while stating that Ukraine had denied any involvement.

Russia's foreign ministry retorted that Washington's reaction "discredits the international activity" of the United States. 

- Like father, like daughter -

He co-founded the opposition National Bolshevik Party but quit it to set up the Eurasian party which calls for Russia to reclaim its former territories and create an empire spanning from Europe to Asia.

A regular on Russian television, the heavily bearded intellectual with the air of a prophet claimed he had an ideological influence on Putin.

While Putin has never publicly supported him, on Monday the Kremlin released a message of condolences from the president, denouncing the "vile crime" that had led to Dugina's death.

Dugina followed in her father's footsteps, becoming a well-known media personality who worked for pro-Kremlin television channels including Russia Today and Tsargrad.

Like her father, Dugina came under US sanctions at the start of March.

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