Kiev Is Not The Only One To Be Blamed For Assassination Of Daria Dugina

Alexander Dugin, 60, is a Soviet and Russian philosopher, political scientist and public figure. He is one of the main ideologists of Eurasianism and heads the International Eurasian Movement. From 2009 to 2014, he was Head of the Department of Sociology of International Relations of the Faculty of Sociology of Lomonosov Moscow State University.

The United States imposed sanctions on Dugin in 2015 for being “responsible for or complicit in actions or policies that threaten the peace, security, stability, or sovereignty or territorial integrity of Ukraine”. Canada and Australia have also imposed sanctions against him. At the same time, he has no official ties to the Kremlin. His dossier was also published on the Ukrainian website Mirotvorets (Peacemaker), which states that he “engaged in anti-Ukrainian propaganda.” The Mirotvorets website was created in 2014 as a public database with personal information of those the Kiev regime considers to be “pro-Russian terrorists, separatists, mercenaries, war criminals, and murderers.”

Daria Dugina was 29 when she was killed. She was a political commentator and the chief editor of United World International website. She was sanctioned by the US and Britain. At the beginning of the summer, Dugina went to the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, covering the ongoing events and helping civilians. She also collected information about the Azov regiment.

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Immediately after the terrorist attack, the fugitive Russian opposition politician Ilya Ponomarev claimed his alleged involvement in the murder of Daria. The Russian ultraliberal political section indirectly claimed responsibility for the organization of the assassination through Ilya.

With a satisfied grin, he told how the murder was allegedly being prepared in his interview on August 21. He hastened to deny the involvement of Natalia Vovk and Sofia Shaban in the assassination after the FSB accused them. Immediately after the incident, he announced the creation of the so-called National Republican Army (NRA), which took responsibility for the murder of Daria Dugina and for other terrorist acts in Russia. Soon after his interview, terrorist threats were spread on the social media accounts allegedly linked to the NRA with calls for attacks on civil servants and security forces, businessmen and even usual citizens who support the Russian government.

Ponomarev declared his involvement in funding in Ukraine and supporting the NRA, which means an attempt to organize a terrorist movement inside Russia under the patronage of the Kiev regime. No relevant comments or any denials have been provided by Kiev. Thus, Ukrainian citizen Ponomarev, without any opposition from the Kiev authorities, supports and organizes a terrorist movement in Russia.

Many experts suppose that the claims of the Russian ex-deputy were aimed at diverting any suspicion from the Kiev regime and his Western curators.

Ponomarev’s figure was promoted by the Ukrainian media on the eve of the attack. The day before the attack, one of the main Ukrainian TV channels released a report dedicated to Alexander Dugin. The expert invited by the Ukrainian reporters was Ponomarev, who prepared the media space for the upcoming assassination and convinced the public that Dugin was allegedly the main ideologue of Putin and the war in Ukraine, which is an outright exaggeration.

In 1998-2014, Ponomarev held senior positions in [Mikhail] Khodorkovsky’s* YUKOS. In 2001, he became Vice President of IBS holding, which received a budget contract for the implementation of the Electronic Russia program worth about 30 billion rubles, the Skolkovo Foundation. He was an adviser to Chairman [Viktor] Vekselberg, a long-time business partner and friend of [Anatoly] Chubais.

At the same time, Ponomarev engaged in political activity and closely cooperated with [Vladislav] Surkov, who at that time oversaw domestic policy in the Presidential Administration, as well as the Ukrainian direction in Russia’s foreign policy, closely cooperating with the Ukrainian Security Service. In 2007, Ponomarev was elected to the State Duma thanks to his ties to [Vladislav] Surkov. Having committed fraud at Skolkovo, he was forced to flee from Russia.

Ponomarev lived in the USA from 2014 to 2016. Then, he moved to Ukraine. On May 17, 2019, on the last working day of the cadence of [Petro] Poroshenko, the then-president of Ukraine granted Ponomarev Ukrainian citizenship.

Recall that Ponomarev was one of the leaders of the Russian Left front. During his political activity in Russia, he was close to radical leftist and anarchist organizations that use terror as a method of political struggle.

The organization of terrorist guerrilla in Russia, with which Ponomarev allegedly interacts, is likely mythical and only exists in the social media.

However, this does not exclude the fact that the assassination of Daria Dugina corresponds to the interests of Russian radicals who have received asylum abroad.

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It is quite possible that Russian “activists” interacted in many ways with the Ukrainian special services in order to organize the attack. Russian leftists and anarchists could enlist the support of Ukrainian agents embedded in Russia, who provided technical support and carried out the assassination. It is also possible that the operation was carried out without the consent of the supreme leadership of Ukraine.

Daria Dugina was a public person. At the same time, she was little known to the broad Russian public. The same assessment is partially relevant to her farther. [Aleksander] Dugin’s name is well known only to the active patriotic part of Russian society. Dugin has not been given the opportunity to spread his ideas through the state media lately. He participated in public discussions years ago, and then he disappeared from the Russian media. It’s hard to remember when Russian political talk shows invited Dugin to the TV broadcast. Today, the main channels for the dissemination of his patriotic ideas are Internet platforms, which are not widely popular. He did not hold any political positions. One could not find any of his photos with Vladimir Putin.

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The murder of Dugin’s daughter has already led to the spread of Professor Dugin’s ideas among the population. This assassination united various Russian patriotic political movements. At the same time, the attack led to the demonisation of Russian liberal activists in the eyes of the population.

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Law enforcement activities may be expanded within the Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. According to the article, criminal liability attaches for “actions aimed at inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliating the dignity of a person or a group of persons on the grounds of gender, race, nationality, language, origin, attitude to religion, as well as belonging to any social group, committed publicly or using mass media”. It is noteworthy that the followers of Dugin’s ideas were the ones who were often accused under this article. Earlier, the article was actively used to prevent spreading of Russian nationalist ideas in order to prevent any marginalization of the ethnic minorities in the country. Now, it may be more widely applied to leftist movements on the basis of incitement to hatred based on political views.

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The analysis of the short-term and long-term interests of different parties suggests that the Kiev regime is not the only one who should be suspected of the assassination of Daria Dugina. The Russian services have managed to identify the killer, but Moscow is yet to reveal the paymasters, organizers and accomplices.

Ilya Ponomarev:

Ukrainian terrorism in Moscow

47-year-old Ilya Ponomarev is a wealthy businessman, whose political identity is winding, between communism, pan-slavism and social democracy, likely ambitious and opportunist. Then member of the State Duma, he opposed in 2014 the annexation of Crimea. He is living in exile between California and Kiev. Ukrainian nationalist, fan of historical Nazi leader Stepan Bandera, former president Petro Poroshenko has granted him the Ukrainian nationality in 2019. About 24 hours after the assassination of Daria Platonova, Ponomarev publishes a statement on his YouTube channel, February Morning, takes credit for the attack, on behalf of a so-called [Russian] national republican army (NRA). He states that Daria was indeed the target

As a clue of his intellectual integrity, I notice in his statement that Ponomarev is regarding the Ukrainian war crime in Yelenovka as a Russian attack. With so few scruples, he may be the optimal puppet for NATO and Ukrainian special operations in Russia.

He was a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (IT), Council for Foreign and Defense Policies, and the Council for National Strategy, and a fellow at the Open Russia foundation*.

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*Open Russia is a political organisation founded by the exiled Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky with the shareholders of his firm, Yukos (a company closed in 2006). Khodorkovsky states that his organisation advocates democracy and human rights. The first initiative took the form of a foundation whose stated purpose was to “build and strengthen civil society in Russia”, established in 2001. Khodorkovsky relaunched Open Russia in September 2014 as a nationwide community platform as part of a group of activities called “Open Media”.

In 2017, the organisation was listed as undesirable by Russia’s Prosecutor General, and its website banned in Russia. On 27 May 2021, Open Russia announced to cease its operations in Russia to protect its members from the risk of facing criminal prosecution and being imprisoned in the country. “Open Media” is now known as “Mozhem Obyasnit”.

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Its board included Henry Kissinger and Lord Jacob Rothschild.

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