Darya Dugina Obituary

Darya Dugina was a Russian journalist and political activist. She was the daughter of Aleksandr Dugin, a Russian far-right political philosopher and a supporter of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, whose political views she also shared.

In 2012/2013, 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.

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.

On July 4, 2022, she was sanctioned by the British government, which accused her of contributing to online disinformation in relation to Russia’s invasion. She responded by saying she was an ordinary journalist and should not have been sanctioned.

Dugina died at the age of 29 on August 20, 2022, in the settlement of Bolshiye Vyazyomy outside Moscow, when her car exploded.