The making and unmaking of Putin’s Rasputin
Last week a bomb was planted under a car in Moscow. Daria Dugina, a columnist for Tsargrad TV (a conservative, Orthodox, pro-Putin, media outlet), was the victim — though no one was quite sure why she was a target.
Daria was an erudite young woman and, from the Kremlin’s perspective, ideologically sound. She was an apologist for Russia’s war in Ukraine and sanctioned by both Britain and the United States.
Barely had the fires from the explosion been put out before Russian security services knew who to blame. It was the Ukrainians that did it.
Taking its cue from the security services’ brand of evidence-free speculation, it now seems the entire world has an answer to the question: “Who killed Daria Dugina?”