The death of Putin ally Alexander Dugin's daughter

A suspected vehicle bomb claimed the life of the Russian president Vladimir Putin's ally and prominent philosopher's daughter.

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Alexander Dugin is an ultranationalist philosopher known as "Putin's brain" 

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Dugin has helped shape Putin's expansionist foreign policy

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Dugina, his daughter died after the Toyota Land Cruiser she was driving exploded in Bolshye Vyazemy

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The bomb was discovered to have been positioned under the car's underside on the driver's side.

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Dugina "died on the spot”

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Someone who knew Dugina, Andrey Krasnov, revealed to TASS that the vehicle she was using belonged to her father.

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and that Dugin or possibly both Durgin and Dugina had been the intended target of the blast.

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