Attack on Putin Rasputin. What does Alexander Dugin's murder mean for Russia

Russian propaganda media and publications are actively spreading the version that Dugin himself had to go in the car. Investigators of the Russian Federation stated that an explosive device was attached to the Toyota Land Cruiser Prado SUV. Video of the day many Russian propagandists, including Margarita Simonyan, have unreasonably accused Ukraine of this incident and called on the Kremlin for strokes in response to Ukrainian territory.

On August 22, the Russian FSB announced the lightning "disclosure" of the case and allegedly involved in the blast of the Dugina's car "Ukrainian special services". The President's office categorically rejected such accusations. "Ukraine is certainly not related to the blast, because we are not a criminal state, which is the Russian Federation, and even more so not a terrorist state," said the adviser to the chairman of the OP Mikhail Podolyak.

Later, the so -called "National Republican Army" allegedly took the responsibility for the murder of Dugin's daughter, as reported by the former deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Ilya Ponomarev on the air of his opposition channel in the morning of Febral. Earlier, nothing was known about this organization. Meanwhile, the world media estimates what can mean such a blow to the family of one of the Kremlin's main ideologists.

HB gives these grades and reminds who Alexander Dugin is for Moscow. 60-year-old Alexander Dugin is one of Rashism's main ideologists, the author of the idea of ​​"Neo-Euimacy" and a system of views that laid the basis for Russian invasion of Ukraine.

In numerous publications about Dugin, which has been published in the world in the world media, it is called "Putin's brain" or "Putin's Rasputin" (The Guardian); "The supreme priest of the dangerous form of Russian nationalism" and "the spiritual father of the term" Russian peace "(CNN); as well as "a self -esteem philosopher whose ideas were helped to form a Kremlin narrative about Ukraine" (The Washington Post).

Since 2014, Dugin has been included in the EU sanctions list, and since 2015 - to similar lists of the US and Canada for involvement in the annexation of Crimea. His daughter Daria, who completely divided his father's ideology and was her active propagandist in the media and public space, also found herself on the lists of sanctions of the United States and Britain for the spread of misinformation.

Although Dugin has never held official state positions, and the degree of his approximation to Vladimir Putin remains the subject of controversy and rumors, it was Putin Rasputin that has become the leader of the dominant in Moscow, the vision of Russia as a "heart of the Eurasian Empire", which was allegedly judged by a historical battle. materialistic ”. An integral part of this concept is the complete refusal of Ukraine to the right to exist and fail to recognize its statehood.

Dugin, the son of Lieutenant General GRU of the General Staff of the USSR Army, has been a marginal ideologist in the last decades before the collapse of the Union, confessing the far-right views of the Nazi Styb (in particular, the Black Order of SS). Since the early 1990s, he has attracted attention, publishing in the newspaper day, the publication of extreme right views, where, as the Guardian reminds, "for the first time he outlined his anti-liberal and ultranational vision of Russia.

" After the collapse of the USSR, together with Edward Lemonov, he founded the National Bolshevik Party and later left it. In 1997, he released his main work on the foundations of geopolitics - the 600 -page volume, which "is considered obligatory for reading among the Russian military and foreign policy", as WP writes. Western analysts believe that this work has finally made Dugin one of the supports of Russian conservative establishment.

In his book, Dugin argued that Russia should restore its dominant position, in particular by a number of annexation, and also emphasized the alleged disabilities of an independent Ukraine. “Ukraine as a state does not have any geopolitical meaning. It has neither the special cultural news of universal importance, neither geographical uniqueness, nor ethnic exclusivity, - he wrote.

"Its certain territorial ambitions pose a great danger to the entire Eurasia, and without solving the Ukrainian problem, it is absolutely meaningless to speak about continental policy. " Russian dictator Vladimir Putin voiced the same position in his speeches on the eve of the invasion of Ukraine, and in the essay on the historical unity of Russians and Ukrainians, which he published six months before this attack.

Particularly close to the ideology of the Kremlin Dugin became after 2012, when Putin again came to power after mass anti -government protests, and two years later - during the annexation of Crimea. It was then that Dugin was one of the authors of the Novorossiya concept, which provided for the capture of several regions of Ukraine and became the starting point of the Donbas invasion in 2014.

In the same spring, in one of the video, Dugin stated that Ukraine should "disappear", called for a "rebellion against junta" throughout the country and voiced an ultra -radical "advice" that Ukrainians "need to kill, kill and kill. " “There should be no talk more. I am telling you as a professor, ”he said, commenting in the spirit of Russian propaganda tragedy at the Odessa Trade Union House in May 2014.

Less than a day before the Saturday attack on his daughter Dary Dugin wrote on social networks that Russia will not be able to win a war in Ukraine if the whole society is not transferred to a military order. "Russia actually […] challenged the event as a civilization. So we will have to go to the end," he wrote.

She gave lectures on philosophy and political science, worked as a political observer founded by Dugin of the International Eurasian Movement, wrote political articles for the pro-Kremlin RT and Tsargorod under the pseudonym Father's footsteps ", notes her" imperialist views "and states that she helped to establish relations with Russia and far -right forces in Europe.

Here are just some of the examples of her views:" The violence that Alexander Dugin promoted for decades, suddenly entered his own life. ", - writes The Guardian about the murder of Dugin's daughter, which he calls a" pro -Kremliv journalist, ideologically related to his father. " th society.

" The authors of the material notes that the footage from the scene of the car of Daria Dugina "inspire the memories of the restless 1990s, when killings with the use of replaced cars were a common matter-a gloomy sign of the past era, to put an end to which Putin's presidential power was released.

" In another material, The Guardian analyzes the risks of a new wave of Russian terror against Ukraine after murder and reminds that "Russian" hawks "tried to blame Ukraine" - although official Kyiv categorically rejected involvement in the attack, saying that Ukraine is "not a terrorist state" .

The publication also notes that if we consider Dugina's murder as part of the war, "for the first time since February, violence, resolved [by Russia] against Ukraine, reached the Russian capital, touching the families of the Kremlin ally in one of the most prestigious regions of Moscow ”.

Analyzing the statement that the responsibility for the attack allegedly took over the unknown "National Republican Army" of Russia, The Guardian commented Kair Jayls, an expert from Russia from the British Analytical Center Chatham House: "The Kremlin's reaction will depend on whether it is true the movement of resistance or a "smoke curtain", complex conspiracy in Russian style, - explains the expert. "Maybe we will not know it for some time.

" The New York Times writes that the murder of Dugina "brought a new uncertainty into a war that has been going on for six months, and embarrassed the Russian elite. " Although the Kremlin's critics in Russia are a common phenomenon, "high -ranking Putin's supporters rarely become target," NYT reminds. The attempt was the more noticeable, as the explosion happened near the Moscow ruble, where there are villas of the ruling class of Russia.

"A rare attack on a member of the pro-Kremlivka elite, reminiscent of bloody killings in the chaotic 1990s in Moscow, can further undermine Putin's efforts to continue the war in Ukraine and at the same time try to maintain a sense of" normal "within the country," NYT said.

On the other hand, writes the author of the material, although Daria Dugin was not particularly known in Russia "outside the ultranational and imperialist circles", after her death, calling for the escalation of war against Ukraine in the Russian Federation was louder. The publication also notes that due to the lack of reliable information about who has undermined Dugina's car, the information space is filled with rumors and assumptions.

Among them are the versions of some Russian critics of the Kremlin that the attack could be carried out by supporters of the war to intensify the support of the idea of ​​doubling the military efforts of the Russian Federation. And yet - the version that the attack was deliberately directed against people such as Dougin who would like Putin to go to a greater escalation in the war.

"The attack on Dugin has drawn attention to those Russians-ultranationalists who are becoming more noticeable on social networks and on state television-and state that Putin is still" too soft "about Ukraine," NYT writes.

- Although Putin said on August 15 that Russian troops "step by step" move [in the Donbass], some popular militant commentators want him to act faster and more aggressively - for example, by striking government buildings in the center of Kiev or declaring a common call for military Service.

" As an example of such calls, the post, which was published after the murder of Dugina, published by the pro -Kremlivsky propagandist Tigran Keosan: "It happened in the capital of our Motherland […] I do not understand why buildings on Bank Street are still standing in Kiev.

" NYT reminds that the Russian soldiers have previously threatened to strike on "decision -making centers" in Ukraine in response to strikes because they consider Russian territory - but these threats have not yet been realized. "Sunday calls for revenge [after Dugina's death] emphasized that the most prominent supporters of the invasion of Ukraine can become uncomfortable allies for the Kremlin, especially if Putin decides not to go through the escalation of war," NYT said.

The Washington Post notes that Dugina's murder can be a new exacerbation of the war, since the pro-Russian forces have already undertook to blame Ukraine of the incident, although Kyiv denies any involvement in it. In this context, the publication reminds that Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other representatives of the Ukrainian authorities have previously warned about possible escalation of attacks by Russia on the eve of Independence Day.

Andriy Yusov, a spokesman for the Main Directorate of Military Intelligence of Ukraine, said the WP that his department did not intend to comment on the incident, but added: "I can say that the process of internal destruction of the" Russian world "began" and predicted that he would "eat and eat and It will pour itself from the inside.

" The blasting of Dugina's car really caused a wave of assumptions of analysts that the attack could be carried out by Russian forces, which were not satisfied with the course of the war. "The origin of the [attacks] is obviously internal, not external," the international security expert Nicola Tenzer, who previously worked in the French government, wrote on Sunday.

If you take seriously the conspiracy theories that Moscow has previously spread after every act of violence against the Kremlin's opponents, then the customers of assassination attempted on Dugina should be sought in Russia, says the political observer of the influential German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Rainhard Waer.

He reminds that if in cases with explosions in the Crimea the Ukrainian leadership did not take responsibility for itself, but "allowed ambiguity" and declared them not without joy, then in the case of Dugina everything was different: "Kyiv absolutely clearly distant from the crime. " It is likely that the basis of this attack is purely Russian, writes Veser. "The violence of the Russian elite has always been directed inside it," reminds the FAZ observer.