Dear Readers:
The biggest news in Russia over this past weekend, was the assassination of Darya (Dasha) Dugina. There is so much content here, not even sure what is the best way to tell this story, starting with the lede and working backwards? Or doing it the “Blue Book” way, starting with the identity of the victim…
Let’s begin with the crime itself. On the evening of Saturday, 20 August, in the vicinity of a town called Bolshie Vyazemy, which is a suburb of Moscow, a Toyota Land Cruiser was driving along, minding its own business. Suddenly it blew up. A bomb had been attached to the underside of the carriage, on the driver’s side. There was a single occupant, the driver behind the wheel: 29-year-old Darya Dugina. When the bomb exploded, the car caught fire, and Darya was killed instantly, it is believed. Or at least, one can hope for her sake that it was quick.
Police arrived at the crime scene and began the investigation. A criminal case has been opened, under Statute 105, Part 2 of the Russian criminal code. This crime will be investigated at the highest level of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian government. This is considered a very high-profile case, due to the possible Ukrainian connection. The Ukrainian government, for its part, has denied any part in Dugina’s murder. For example, Zelensky’s advisor and spokesperson, Mikhail Podolyak, has officially denied that the Ukrainian special services had anything to do with this terrorist act. Which didn’t stop the pro-Ukrainian Westie media from gloating and celebrating this young woman’s death, as we shall see.
Reading various accounts over the weekend, in both pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian press: Apparently Darya’s father, Alexander Dugin, was driving fairly close behind his daughter’s car and probably witnessed the explosion. Within minutes he rushed to the wreckage, perhaps even before the police arrived. Once it sunk in that his daughter was really dead, he collapsed at the scene, and had to be hospitalized.
Initially many people just assumed that Alexander himself was the target, although, according to this piece, the Toyota belonged to Darya. Who was returning home from a concert/festival called “Tradition” at the Zakharovo Manor, where her father Alexander had just delivered a speech. According to family friend Petr Lundstrem, the father/daughter pair had initially planned to return to Moscow in the same car; but “at the last minute” Dugin decided to hitch a ride with somebody else; and would follow close behind in a different car.
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A lot of these details are still “fog of war” (or in this case “fog of crime”) type stuff; so please take everything with a pinch of salt. In the course of the investigation, all the details of the incident will be clarified. However, an important clarification was already delivered by the experts: As to the question whether the bomb was on a timer or remote control, the answer already came in: Remote control. This fact has huge ramifications. WarGonzo blogger Semyon Pegov points out that the person who pressed the remote-control button to ignite the bomb, would have been in visual contact with the car and its occupant: “In other words, the terrorists who were supposedly out to blow Dugin up in his own car, would have observed, how Darya got into the car instead. Not the original target. And then they would have had to make a decision: To blow up, or not to blow up? And they took the decision: Go ahead and blow up the daughter. So, Darya became the new target. And this is, it goes without saying, an entirely new level of terrorism. Not even your average ISIS terrorist would take such a low step.”
Maria Zakharova, of the Russian Foreign Ministry, declared, in response to this crime, that should it transpire, that the Ukrainian government had anything to do with this, then we are talking about state-sponsored terrorism on the part of the Kiev regime. Currently the only Ukrainian “trace” that is known, is the fact that Alexander Dugin himself had complained about threats that he and his daughter had received, coming out of the Ukraine. But that’s normal: The Ukrainians threaten and blacklist everybody in the world who doesn’t give them full and unconditional support.
Dugin, however, is a special case, and particularly hated by the West and their proxies. Both Dugin and his daughter are on American/British “sanctions” lists. Dugin has been the recipient of non-stop hate-speech for years now. Westies hate and demonize him because of his philosophical ideas and anti-Liberal ideology. Darya herself has a degree in Political Philosophy and shared her father’s ideology. Both were strong supporters of the Russian “Special Military Operation” against the Ukraine. Which would have made them “fair game” according to the usual Ukrainian standards. However, nothing has been proved yet, so we shall just have to wait and see.
In the continuation of this story, we will discuss Dugin’s “harmful” ideas, some interesting history of his political career; and how the Westie press is inhumanely revelling in his grief.
[to be continued]
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“and how the Westie press is inhumanely reveling in his grief.”
This “press” has become nothing but propaganda rags and shows. This gloating about the death of a journalist and a philosopher just because she (and her father) espouse ideas, based on the experience of western Russophobia and how it tramples on the rights of weaker nations, justifies everything Russians despise about “The West” and its so called “liberalism”, an ideology that has died by its own hands at least since the demise of the USSR, by the “West” claiming victory and trying to establish a new unipolar world, of which another death in the making.
This press representing, or claiming to represent this ideology is beyond redemption at present, and as Patrick Lawrence explains:
“This, to me, is the disgraceful abrogation of duty that makes me wonder if mainstream media can ever step back from their out-and-out embrace of the role they have assumed as propagandists. Do not pretend to shock. This has been going on a long time. Ukraine simply marks a swoon too far in my estimation.”
https://thescrum.substack.com/p/head-spinning-disorientation
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Thanks for posting that link, it’s a good piece by Patrick Lawrence. Truly we are in an upside-down Alice in Wonderland world here.
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To be honest, I’m surprised they’ve covered it at all. I think it has to do with the fact that Dugin is inflated into a huge bogeyman, presumably by Russian liberals echoed in the collective West. The Russosphere seems to be full of outrage at those Russian liberals who just couldn’t stay quiet.
Interesting that the the FSB has produced a suspect post haste, hard to know if it’s just Johnny on the spot investigative work or some sort of “round up the usual suspects”. Anyway, an appalling murder for anyone not a moral leper however you slice it.
It’s going to be a strange week, I expect, what with 404 “Independence” day coming up, and doubtless something unpleasant in the mix. Stay tuned!
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Just saw the Russian news report, they arrested a woman named Natalia Vovk. I’ll have to study that and include info in my post tomorrow.
Yeah, from what I understand, Dugin didn’t really have very much political influence in the Russian elite; for for some reason his role was very much inflated in Westie circles.
Even if he were to have had some influence, do they still believe that it is okay to murder someone because you disagree with their political views? Apparently they do think that is okay.
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You’ll have to give a link backing up that word, “arrested” as opposed to merely “identified” which is the most I’ve seen anywhere else. I can wait until tomorrow, in your continuation article.
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I am so sorry, that was an egregiouis mistake. There was no arrest. I typed that in haste, just barely skimming the headline. The perp has fled to Estonia. In all likelihood the Estonians will protect her and probably even give her a medal. I predict that (if she is indeed the killer) she will get away with it and never be arrested. NATO will protect her. My apologies again.
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I suspect Ms. Vovk is already looking over her shoulder in fear not just of the FSB, but also of the SUB, CIA, MI6, and other Western intelligence agencies. The former would like her scalp for obvious reasons and the latter would like her gone to forestall her singing to the former about just who ordered this hit. The Russians might try to abduct and secret her to Moscow in an operation similar to that once visited on Eichmann. The “democratic West’s” intelligence forces, on the other hand, would prefer to give her two in the back of her bonnet followed by burial at sea.
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Frmr Ukrainia, like any police state, has a penchant for attacking/killing/maiming civilians who don’t obey unquestioningly, be they foreign or domestic. Then again, this is SOP for MI-6 and it’s acolytes and we all know what busy bees they can be and hey, aren’t they “helping” the Ukrainia’s with their tactics?
As I understand it, US Army Rsv. Lt. Col. Tulsi Gabbard [frmr US Congresswoman & D-party Presidential candidate] is also being threatened by frmr-Ukrainia because…she alone among Dems did not support Ukrainia’s massive decade long shelling of civilians which, as anybody who actually followed events in frmr-Ukrainia knows, precipitated the current war.
I am pretty sure the folks of the Biden Administration are to busy using the national police state against their political enemies to even notice or, care to offer Col Gabbard any protection from state-sponsored-terrorism. Protecting Col. Tulsi would create bad optics for the pro-war D’s in the mid terms….however, her death might help intimidate those who continue to speak out against the Cheney/Obama/Hillary/Biden war in frmr-Ukrainia.
And yes, I think it fair to move the Cheney clan over into the D camp as the Cheney camp was in the Clinton/Obama/Biden administration. Then there is the DNC, a bloodthirsty clan if there ever was one, they, no doubt, would wish frmr-Ukrainia’s state-sponsored terrorism to be visited upon their political opponents inside the party and probably suggested Col. Tulsi’s name to frmr-Ukrainia.
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Yeah, Tulsi is on the Ukraine Mirotvorec hit-list site, so I hope she has engaged some bodyguards. She should also check underneath her car every time.
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Relevant link, though I’m sure yalensis will find the same info in russian.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/russian-fsb:-ukraines-special-services-behind-darya-duginas
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Thanks! It’s good to have an English-language source as well. Cuts down on the amount of stuff I have to translate, when people can just read for themselves.
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Dmitry Orlov provided some surprisingly specific details on his blog:
‘The bomb was planted by Ukrainian citizen Natalya Vovk, born in 1979, who had arrived in Russia on July 23 together with her daugher Sofia Shaban. They had rented an apartment in the building where Dugina lived and followed her around in a Mini Cooper under three different license plates: from Donetsk, Kazakhstan and the Ukraine. The day of the terrorist attack Vovk and her daughter were present at the festival “Tradition” attended by Alexander Dugin and his daughter. After triggering the explosive device, the two fled via Pskov to Estonia.’
I assume this is the FSB suspect whom steventjohnson mentioned?
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My readers are way ahead of me, I am just reading all of this info for the first time. If Vovk fled to Estonia, then that means the FSB will not be able to detain or question her. Bummer.
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Time for some “extraordinary rendition” (to borrow a phrase from less-civilized places)? Not impossible. I’m not saying it should or will happen, but I’m sure a lot of people are thinking this would be condign: Catch them both (there’s essentially no chance the daughter didn’t know what her mother was doing, making her an accomplice at least, an active participant more likely). Bring them to trial. If fairly convicted beyond a reasonable doubt based on evidence, sentence one to execution, the other to life in prison after being forced to watch the execution of the other. Guess which is which. I wish it wasn’t, the world shouldn’t suck this bad, but it’s the exact justice they deserve to get if convicted.
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The daughter is only 12. As a minor I think she would get a pass in the Russian legal system, even if she participated in the crime.
The bigger issue is that Estonia will most likely not extradite, instead they would probably give the killer a medal. Maybe there could be a commando operation of some sort to take her, not sure.
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Alright, 12 is a whole new situation. Somewhere else said “teenage” and in my book, 12 is not teenage. Pretty disgusting taking her along on a trip for this purpose, and I’d still bet the daughter knew what her mother was planning and what she did. Consider the chance that she was in the car with her when she pressed the button to blow up the other car. The daughter, regardless of her age (well, above 3 anyway), would have at least heard and seen the explosion and known her mother was not surprised by it. Imagine growing up and realizing that your mother involved you in something like this.
I can’t help it, I hope the daughter, as an orphan, gets some good decent foster parents or adoptive parents soon.
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In my book 12 is still a child. Although old enough to have some emergent knowledge of the world and even developing one’s old political ideas.
But still young enough to be completely dependent on one’s parent(s).
I would ask each one of us to think back to when we were 12 and pose this thought experiment: If our mother took us on a trip and ordered us to plant a bomb underneath a stranger’s car, would we say no and walk away?
I honestly don’t know what I would have done. I mean, I think I would have known that killing somebody was wrong. But to walk away, to what? Where would I go? Who would I turn to?
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http://thesaker.is/ukraine-update-dugina-murder-and-blacklisting-of-roger-waters/
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When they start going after Pink Floyd, that’s a bridge too far!
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It’s kinda shocking to see how hohol scum manage to shoot themselves in the knees. What the hell were they thinking? Is there ANYTHING they’ve done since The Maidan that wasn’t useful for their Russian enemies?
People used to make fun of Dugin, since his political ideas are rather shallow and basic and self-explanatory. Wow, Russians have their own political system, which is formed by their history and the vastness of Russia. Don’t say?
Now his idea will reach untold millions, when they decide to read about this guy and his murdered daughter. Not to mention that hohol “elite” and their Western patrons opened themselves up for a vengeance of some kind. Is Brandon looking over his crack-addled son? Maybe the “boy” should stay away from his SUV from now on, doncha think?
Unfuckingbelievable. This is so damaging for ukronazi filth that I wonder if the Russians themselves pulled this one off.
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I never paid much attention to Dugin myself, since I have little interest or curiosity for non-secular ideologies. I remember back on Professor Paul Robinson’s blog, if I am not mistaken the Prof did a few posts about Dugin, and had concluded that the latter was not actually very influential at all within the Putin elite. It is said that Dugin and Putin never met face to face. Which doesn’t necessary mean anything, except that the Ukrainians convinced themselves that Dugin whispers into Putin’s ears 24/7. They also claim that Dugin is the “architect” of the Ukraine invasion. Dear me. This invasion must have had 100 million architects, or even more, so many people have been demanding or wishing for it since 2014. And that’s just Russians, not even counting the immense support all over the world for toppling that nasty Ukr regime.
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yalensis, given that it’s primarily western media and intelligence elements (to the extent there’s any difference) who were obsessed with Dugin’s purported influence, I wonder how much of this was known in advance – perhaps even ordered and/or planned – in Washington.
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That’s a fair theory. It’s clear that Washington DC elite are completely deluded and know absolutely nothing about Russian society or politics. In such a state of ignorance and delusion, it’s very possible they imagined they could win the war by assassinating Dugina(?)
I mean, they are clearly nuts…
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from what i’ve read of and by dugin (quite a bit) he’s basically a “light” traditionalist and never really reaches the profundity of guenon, evola or spengler. if he was part of the true anti-materialist tradition he’d avoid putin like the plague since the latter – for all his strong points as a leader – is very much a capitalist and until recently tried very hard to play nice with the west. dugin does have a distinct anti-fascist streak and i think he genuinely cares about the welfare of russia but he’s hardly “putin’s rasputin” (though at this point he’s doing roughly as well as rasputin when it comes to surviving assassination attempts. hopefully we’ll never know if he can take multiple bullets, knives and drowning.)
anyhoo…i thought it was twisted as f_ck to take your daughter to kill someone’s daughter but if she really was 12…WOW. no one available at Black Sun Babysitters? she can hide in estonia for a while but i doubt she’ll get away forever. as much as the FSB screwed up on this one i’m guessing they will heavily overcompensate.
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I don’t know if this is true, but I read a speculation that Vovk used her kid to crawl under Darya’s car to plant the bomb. Being small and wiry and all… how sick is that?
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Life imitates art? (The Avengers movie)
Bruce Banner / Hulk: And your actress… is she a spy too? They start that young?
Natasha Romanov / Black Widow: I did.
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Sure, it’s possible. Still, I’ll need more than “I read a speculation” before I’ll conclude that something that’s possible is true.
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Well, all we have is speculation at this point. We won’t know the truth until they catch her. Which they probably won’t. I was just reading today in Russian press, they believe she escaped from Estonia to Austria. They also “speculate” that Ukrainian secret services will do some plastic surgery on her to change her appearance and identity.
As for the kid, one commenter pointed out that the Ukrainian Nazis start the brainwashing very early, they send their kids to Bandera summer camp and turn them into fanatics at a very young age.
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@yalensis, if it fits and you know, please could you briefly explain the significance of Darya Dugina and what she did for Russia as a country.
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I think the short answer is that Darya espoused her father’s philosophy of “traditional family values” and opposed Western degeneracy, that sort of thing. She just got her PhD in Philosophy and also worked as a kind of journalist and analyst; promoting geo-political ideas of Russia as the spiritual leader of the new “Eurasian” world order; opposed NATO; supported the people of Donbass. Basically a pundit and political influencer (?) In time she probably would have created her own think tank, I reckon. Westies saw her as a potential ideological threat to their world order.
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Thank you
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Bolshie Vyazemy is not really a suburb of Moscow. It is situated some 26 miles as the crow flies southeast of the city centre, very rural, and is exactly halfway on the rail journey to my dacha. It is close to the settlement Golytsino.
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Thanks, Exile! So, if Darya lived in Moscow somewhere, she was probably driving northwest to get home. Although I don’t know if she lived in the center, or somewhere on the outskirts.
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