Moscow court arrests in absentia man suspected of killing Daria Dugina

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow has arrested in absentia Bogdan Tsyganenko, the man suspected of killing Daria Dugina, the daughter of ideologist behind the “Russian world” concept Alexander Dugin, Mediazona reports, citing the court’s website. 

In August 2022, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) claimed that Tsyganenko and Ukrainian national Natalya Vovk had been preparing the murder of Daria Dugina.

According to the services, Bohdan Tsyganenko, born in 1978, provided Vovk with number plates and documents in the name of Kazakh national Yulia Zayko. The FSB thinks that he helped Vovk create an explosive device in a garage in southwestern Moscow.

Daria Dugina, the daughter of Russian ultraconservative philosopher Alexander Dugin, was killed in a car explosion on 20 August 2022. 

Several days later, the FSB accused the Ukrainian security services of her murder and said Vovk was the person behind it.

According to the FSB, Vovk rented a Mini Cooper car, using the number plates of the self-proclaimed Donetsk “people’s republic” (“DPR”) Е982ХН DPR to enter Russia. In Moscow, she used Kazakh number plates 172AJD02, and Ukrainian AH7771IP plates when leaving Russia.

Ukrainian officials stated that the country has nothing to do with Dugina’s murder.