Alexander Dugan was a self-promoter who is better known to Western officials than most Russians. He has been very popular as an interview subject in the last 10 years, he says. But keep in mind that this is not a person people are seeing on Russian television because he was still somewhat a fringe guest. There isn't a real sense of why she would be targeted instead of him - it's just a different packaging for it.
A car bomb killed Russian commentator Darya Dugina over the weekend. The bomb may have been meant for her father, the far-right, pro-Putin, pro-war philosopher Alexander Dugin. The Guardian’s Andrew Roth explains.
This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and edited and hosted by Noel King.
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