The Moscow department of the Russian Investigative Committee yesterday mentioned preliminary data indicated a bomb planted within the SUV pushed by Daria Dugina, 29, exploded on Saturday evening and killed the TV commentator who was the daughter of Alexander Dugin, a nationalist thinker and author.
Dugin is a distinguished proponent of the "Russian world" idea, a religious and political ideology that emphasises conventional values, restoration of Russia's energy and the unity of all ethnic Russians all through the world.
He is also a vehement supporter of Russia sending troops into Ukraine.
The explosion came about as his daughter was getting back from a cultural pageant she had attended with him. Some Russian media stories cited witnesses as saying the SUV belonged to Dugin and that he had determined on the final minute to journey in one other car.
The vivid and violent incident, uncommon for Moscow, is more likely to worsen Russia-Ukraine animosity.
No suspects had been instantly recognized. However Denis Pushilin, president of the separatist Donetsk Individuals's Republic that could be a focus of Russia's preventing in Ukraine, blamed it on "terrorists of the Ukrainian regime, making an attempt to kill Alexander Dugin".
Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, denied Ukrainian involvement, saying on nationwide TV that "We're not a felony state, not like Russia, and undoubtedly not a terrorist state".
Analyst Sergei Markov, a former Putin adviser, informed Russian state information company RIA-Novosti that Alexander Dugin, not his daughter, seemingly was the supposed goal.
"It is utterly apparent that probably the most possible suspects are Ukrainian navy intelligence and the Ukrainian Safety Service," he mentioned.
Whereas Dugin's precise ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin are unclear, the Kremlin steadily echoes rhetoric from his writings and appearances on Russian state TV.
He helped popularise the "Novorossiya", or New Russia, idea that Russia used to justify the 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimea and its assist of separatist rebels in jap Ukraine.
He promotes Russia as a rustic of piety, conventional values and authoritarian management, and disdains Western liberal values.
His daughter expressed related views and had appeared as a commentator on the nationalist TV channel Tsargrad, the place Dugin had served as chief editor.
Dugina herself was sanctioned by the US in March for her work as chief editor of United World Worldwide, a web site that the US described as a disinformation website.
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The sanctions announcement cited a UWI article this 12 months that contended Ukraine would "perish" if it had been admitted to NATO.
"Dasha, like her father, has at all times been on the forefront of confrontation with the West," Tsargrad mentioned on Sunday, utilizing the acquainted type of her title.