Death of Daria Dugina opens a new chapter in fraught history of political assassinations in Russia
High-profile assassination attempts helped define Russia’s chaotic 1990s. In recent years, they have targeted businessmen and journalists in Ukraine — and, in the past few weeks, pro-Russian figures in Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine.
But the killing of the Russian nationalist commentator Daria Dugina this weekend when the vehicle she was driving exploded outside Moscow was something different. Car bombs were a fixture of 1990s Moscow, but they have become a rarity in President Vladimir V. Putin’s much more tightly controlled Russia.
And while Russia has seen its share of high-profile assassination attempts in recent years, the targets have tended to be the Kremlin’s opponents rather than its supporters.
Although Ukraine has been able to target people in Russian-occupied areas near the front line, there has been no indication that it could conduct an audacious attack so close to the Russian capital.
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