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What the Dugin assassination tells us about Russia

Putin’s regime is weaker than it looks

Alexander Dugin stood in front of his daughter's burning car
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Car bombs used to be a fixture of gangland feuds in 1990s Russia but have since fallen out of fashion. This makes it all the more striking when, as happened on Saturday night, such a device rips through a car just outside Moscow, killing Darya Dugina, daughter of the controversial nationalist ideologue Alexander Dugin.

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