Daria Platonova (1992-2022) is a daughter of Alexander Dugin and ideologist of the Eurasian movement. She graduated from the Philosophy Department of Moscow State University in 2015. Since then she has acted as a preacher of her father’s ideas in the academic space. Since 2020, she has appeared in the Russian media as a representative of Dugin’s Eurasianism, and after the start of the war in Ukraine in 2022, she also appeared on federal television as an expert political scientist who substantiates Russia’s right to war.
**Assasination**
Daria Dugina was killed on the evening of 20 August near Moscow when a bomb exploded in her car. Together with her father, Daria was at the nationalist festival Tradition. The philosopher himself, according to eyewitnesses, had planned to leave the festival in the same car, but at the last minute he switched to another one. The investigation revealed that an explosive device had been attached to the underside of the car under the driver’s seat; a source added that “400 grams of TNT” had been planted in Dugina’s jeep.
“According to Aleksandr Dugin, he and his daughter have recently received numerous threats from Ukrainian nationalists via social media, but did not pay any attention to them,” a law enforcement source told newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda. Dmytro Podolyak, adviser to the Ukrainian president’s office, says Ukraine is not involved in the murder of journalist and political analyst Daria Dugina.
**National Republican Army**
Former Russian politician Ilya Ponomaryov, who fled to Ukraine, said on the next day after Dugina’s murder that members of the National Republican Army is behind the assasination. “This action like many other direct guerrilla actions carried out in Russia in recent months, was done by the National Republican Army. We have established contact with its fighters through our Rospartizan resource, which covers the rising tide of resistance in Russia. The NRA fighters have authorised me to read their manifesto today”, [said](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pofT8V8vytc) Ponomarev on the air of his opposition channel February Morning.
