Darya Dugina Biography – Darya Dugina Wiki
Darya Dugina also known as Daria Platonova was a Russian journalist and political activist. After completing university, she worked as a journalist, writing for the state-controlled media outlet RT and the pro-Kremlin conservative channel Tsargrad, using the pen name Daria Platonova. She was affiliated with the International Eurasian Movement and worked for them as a political commentator.
According to the United States Department of the Treasury, which added her to the U.S. sanctions list on March 3, 2022, she was the chief editor of a disinformation website called United World International which it itself states is owned by Putin ally Yevgeny Prigozhin, who also controls the state-backed Wagner Group. At the same time, she served as the press secretary for her father.
Dugina was an outspoken supporter of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. In particular, she claimed that the war crimes against Ukrainian civilians by the Russian army during the invasion were staged. In June 2022, she visited occupied Donetsk and Mariupol. On July 4, 2022, she was sanctioned by the British government, which accused her of being a “frequent and high-profile contributor of disinformation in relation to Ukraine and the Russian invasion of Ukraine on various online platforms”. She responded by saying that she is an ordinary journalist and should not have been sanctioned.
In 2012/2013, while studying at Moscow State University, she was an intern at Bordeaux Montaigne University, specializing in Ancient Greek philosophy. She completed her postgraduate studies at Moscow State University’s Faculty of Philosophy in 2015.
Darya Dugina Age
Her birth name was Darya Aleksandrovna Dugina. She was born on December 15, 1992, in Moscow, Russia.
Darya Dugina Parents
She was the daughter of Aleksandr Dugin and his second wife, philosopher Natalya Melentyeva. Her father is a Russian far-right political philosopher and a supporter of Russian president Vladimir Putin, whose political views she also shared.
Darya Dugina Death
Dugina died at the age of 29 on August 20, 2022, when her car exploded in the settlement of Bolshiye Vyazyomy outside Moscow. She was driving to Moscow after attending the annual festival “Tradition”, which describes itself as a family festival for art lovers. Investigators said an explosive device was planted in the car. It is unclear whether she was targeted directly, or whether her father, who had been expected to travel with her but switched to another car at the last minute, was the real target of the assassination attempt.
The head of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Denis Pushilin, claimed that Ukrainian authorities were behind the explosion. The Ukrainian government denied any involvement, saying that “We are not a criminal state like the Russian Federation, much less a terrorist one.”
Ilya Ponomarev, a former member of Russia’s Duma now living in exile in Ukraine, claimed that a Russian partisan group going by the name National Republican Army (NRA) was responsible for the attack. Ponomarev says the NRA is an underground group working inside Russia dedicated to overthrowing the Putin regime.
Darya Dugina Cause of Death
She died on August 20, 2022, at the age of 29. The cause of her death was a result of her car exploding in the settlement of Bolshiye Vyazyomy outside Moscow.
