Alexander Dugin, a prominent Russian ultranationalist, said his daughter Darya Dugina died for her country as he delivered an emotional speech at a memorial service in Moscow on Tuesday. “He died for our victory, our Russian victory, for the sake of the orthodoxy of our country, our state,” he said. Dugina, the editor of a Russian disinformation website, was killed by a car bomb on the outskirts of Moscow on Saturday. “Since she was little, her first words, which we naturally taught her, were Russia: our state, our people, our empire,” Dugin said at his daughter’s memorial service. “He wasn’t afraid and the last thing he said, when we talked at the Festival of Tradition, he said to me, ‘Dad, I feel like a warrior, I feel like a hero. I want to be like this, I don’t want another fate. I want to be with my people, with my country,” Dugin said. “In my last lecture, we were next to each other and I told her that our history is a constant battle of light and darkness. God and his adversary and that we are now in it and our political situation and our war in Ukraine but not with Ukraine. That is also part of this war: Light and darkness,” he added. Dugin said he “could feel how happy she was” after the Russian Federation awarded Dugina a posthumous Order of Courage in a decree signed by Putin on Monday. The Russian President sent his condolences to Dugina’s family on Monday. “A despicable, cruel crime took the life of Darya Dugina, a bright, talented person with a true Russian heart – kind, loving, sympathetic and open. A journalist, scientist, philosopher, war correspondent, she served the people with sincerity. Motherland, she proved in action what it means to be a patriot of Russia,” Putin said in a statement posted on the Kremlin’s Telegram channel. Denis Pushilin, head of the Donetsk People’s Republic, also expressed his condolences and praised Dugina’s support in the Donbas region, saying she “fearlessly came to the burning cities of the republic to tell the world the truth about what is happening in the country us”. in remarks made on his behalf during the function. Russia blamed Ukrainian special services for Dugina’s murder, TASS reported on Monday. Ukraine has denied any involvement in Dugina’s murder, calling the allegations by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) fiction.
