aleksandr dugina is a prominent ultra—nationalist philosopher and strategist. a was interviewed by the bbc�*s gabriel gatehouse in 2016. he had this to say about his philosophy. truth is the question of belief and postmodernity shows that every so called truth is the matter of believing. so we believe in what we do, we believe in what we say, and that is the only way to define the truth. so we have our special russian truths that you need to accept as something that maybe is not your truth... even if it's not true? but if the truth is relative, that doesn't mean that truth doesn't exist. let's go now to bbc russian�*s anastasia golubeva in riga. what more do we know about this attack? we what more do we know about this attack? ~ ~' ., what more do we know about this attack? ~ ~ ., ., , ., ., , attack? we know that dugina and his dau~hter attack? we know that dugina and his daughter attended _ attack? we know that dugina and his daughter attended a _ attack? we know that dugina and his daughter attended a cultural - daughter attended a cultural festival yesterday

planning for ukraine in the coming hours, particularly in the wake of the murder of aleksandr dugin but's daughter darya dugina is killed by a car bomb planted under the vehicle as she was driving. >> the, first is anybody's guess. but, you have to, listening to russian officials, listening to russian state control media, you'd have to believe that they want to retaliate in some way against ukraine. and, as you pointed out, we've got to anniversaries, six months of the war, and since 1991, they're independents all coming this week. so, this all kinds of leads to the conclusion that there would be something. the concern, i think from the united states at least, is that it could be directed against individual citizens, you know, citizens as opposed to the military. that could be very dangerous. but, you know, i think also we have to watch also what's going on in russia. and i do think that they were television could also be against people who are opposed to the war and opposed to putin, because that already is kind of part of the drumbeat that you are hearing from the media and from officials. >> right, and afte

darya dugina, a political commentator, was killed when a bomb exploded in the car she was driving. at the scene, her father, aleksandrin the car with his daughter, but changed his mind at the last minute, and there is speculation he was the intended target. darya dugina, like herfather, was a vocal supporter of russia's invasion of ukraine. she was a regular guest on russian television, calling the war a clash of civilisations. both she and her father have been sanctioned by the west. some analysts say president putin is close to aleksandr dugin, although the nature of their relationship is unclear. but mr dugin's radical nationalism has helped shape the kremlin's foreign policy, including on ukraine. his political movement, eurasianism, sees russia as the centre of a new empire that will challenge the west. back in 2016, mr dugin spoke to the bbc�*s gabriel gatehouse about his views. so we have our special russian truth that you need to accept as something that maybe is not your truth. even if it's not true? but if the truth is relative, that doesn't mean that truth doesn't exist. the authorities have not yet said w

darya dugina was a journalist and vocal supporter of the invasion of ukraine. there is speculation the target may have been her father, aleksandrr a new russian empire, challenging the west, are said to have influenced president putin. will vernon reports from moscow. a fireball on the streets of moscow. darya dugina, a political commentator, was killed when a bomb exploded in the car she was driving. at the scene, her father, aleksandr dugin, an ultra nationalist philosopher. russian media said mr dugin was meant to travel in the car with his daughter, but changed his mind at the last minute, and there is speculation he was the intended target. darya dugina, like herfather, was a vocal supporter of russia's invasion of ukraine. she was a regular guest on russian television, calling the war a clash of civilisations. both she and her father have been sanctioned by the west. some analysts say president putin is close to aleksandr dugin, although the nature of their relationship is unclear. but mr dugin�*s radical nationalism has helped shape the kremlin�*s foreign policy, including on ukraine. his political movement, eurasianism,

darya dugina was a journalist and vocal supporter of the invasion of ukraine. there is speculation the target may have been her father, aleksandrst, are said to have influenced president putin. will vernon reports from moscow. a fireball on the streets of moscow. 30—year—old darya dugina, a political commentator, was killed when a bomb exploded in the car she was driving. at the scene, her father, aleksandr dugin, an ultra nationalist philosopher. russian media said mr dugin was meant to travel in the car with his daughter, but changed his mind at the last minute, and there is speculation he was the intended target. darya dugina's father was a vocal supporter of russia's invasion of ukraine. she was a regular guest on russian television, calling the war a clash of civilisations. both she and her father have been sanctioned by the west. some analysts say president putin is close to aleksandr dugin, although the nature of the relationship is unclear. but mr dugin�*s radical nationalism has helped shape the kremlin�*s foreign policy, including on ukraine. his political movement, eurasianism, sees russia as the centre of a new empi

russian investigators say the bomb attack that killed daria dugina but presumably targeted her father, the far—right ideologue aleksandrin, was preplanned and commissioned. the explosives were planted on his car but he escaped assassination after switching vehicles following an event outside moscow. now on bbc news, duncan kennedy reports on the story of historical forced adoptions and the mothers�* search for a justice and an official government apology. this is the story about loss. of lives changed, love fractured. it happened not long ago and the pain has followed those involved down through history. i lost the only thing in my life that i ever wanted. i loved her so much. i still love her. i'm her mum! it was to be a secret. it was...it was not to be discussed. l was actually taken from my arms without telling me what was happening. i canjust remember lying there, thinking it'd be better to die. a historical injustice - is what happened to us. other countries have recognised i it and it's high time ours did. i bells toll. 60 years ago, british society was very different. the bride's name is stella, she's 19, lives

darya dugina, the daughter of the prominent ultra—nationalist aleksandr dugin.e took after she was criticised for being filmed dancing at a party. tabloid newspapers and some finnish politicians had accused ms marin of taking recreational drugs at the event. pakistan's police have charged the country's former prime minister, imran khan, under anti—terror laws. their investigation comes after he accused the police and judiciary of detaining and torturing a close aide. he has now been granted pre—arrest bail until thursday. britain's intelligence agencies are facing accusations of colluding in the abduction and torture of a british national by the indian authorities. jagtar sinthohal, a sikh activist and bloggerfrom scotland, was seized by indian police five years ago and has been in prison ever since. his case has been raised by successive prime ministers. now the human rights group reprieve has shown the bbc documents which they say prove that his arrest came after a tip—off from british intelligence. 0ur security correspondent frank gardener is here. tell us mo

russian investigators say the bomb attack that killed daria dugina but presumably targeted her father, the far—right ideologue aleksandrles following an event outside moscow.

russian investigators say the bomb attack that killed daria dugina — but presumably targeted her father, the far—right ideologue aleksandrreplanned and commissioned. the explosives were planted on his car — but he escaped assassination after switching vehicles, following an event outside moscow. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur and this is riga, the capital of the small baltic state of latvia, which was liberated from moscow's rule some three decades ago and which is now braced for a new era of confrontation with russia. vladimir putin's invasion of ukraine reminded latvians of the russian threat. it also stoked internal tensions because a quarter of latvia's population is ethnic russian and this country relies heavily on russian gas supplies. well, my guest today is latvia's prime minister, krisjanis karins. just how vulnerable is latvia? prime minister krisjanis karins, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. vladimir putin's invasion of ukraine happened six months ago. right now, here in latvia, has that war raised the level of fear to new heights? what the war has done has raised the level o

russian investigators say the bomb attack that killed daria dugina — but presumably targeted her father, the far—right ideologue aleksandrplanned and commissioned. the explosives were planted on his car, but he escaped assassination after switching vehicles following an event outside moscow. now on bbc news, dateline london with shaun ley. hello, and welcome to the programme where british journalists debate the week's news with the correspondents who write, blog, podcast and broadcast from the dateline: london. living with double—digit inflation is an unwelcome, if familiar, experience in many countries. turkey, argentina, zimbabwe and iran started 2022 under that yoke. for the british, it had been a distant memory, but not any more. in the united states, presidentjoe biden signed into law the optimistically titled inflation reduction act. would it were that simple. another bad memory from the 1980s, the threat to kill the author sir salman rushdie, came close to being fulfilled. liberals are relieved he survived, but have they helped to fuel intolerance? to discuss all that, in the studio are maria margaronis, a documen

the daughter of one of president putin's close allies, aleksandr dugin, has been killed in a bomb attack. russian media says darya duginarom the authorities. it's thought that her father, a prominent ultra—nationalist philosopher and strategist, sometimes described as putin's brain, was the target. the pair were reportedly set to travel back from an event in the same vehicle, but mr dugin had switched bbc russia's anastasia golubeva has more on this. just outside moscow, a cultural event there, they were leaving in the late evening yesterday. they arrived in the two cars. alexander dugin, it was reported he was supposed to get into the car with his daughter. but he switched cars at the very last moment and went home with someone else and the car that his daughter was in exploded eventually. it was an improvised explosive device that went off under the bottom of the car. something like this pretty unusual in russia? if you know the history of russia, russia, accidents of this sort happened in the 90s but now to witness such an explosion just outside moscow is quite unusual and shocking to many. law enforcement do not hav

reporting, the daughter of one of president putin's close allies, aleksandr dugin, has been killed in a bomb attack. russian media says darya duginant from the authorities. it's thought that her father — who's often called "putin's brain" — could have been the intended target of the attack. the pair were reportedly set to travel back from an event in the same car. aleksandr dugin is a prominent ultra—nationalist philosopher and strategist. in the end he switched cars. bbc russian's anastasia golubeva in riga gave me more details. just outside moscow, a cultural event there, they were leaving in the late evening yesterday. they arrived in the two cars. alexander dugin, it was reported he was supposed to get into the car with his daughter. an improvised expose of device detonated under the bottom of her car. something like this pretty unusual in russia? if you know the history of russia, accidents of this sort happened in the 90s but now to witness such exposure just outside moscow is quite unusual and shocking to many. law enforcement do not have any official version and who might be behind this death. they said this murder is of t

established that ukraine was behind the killing on saturday of daria dugina — daughter of the prominent ultranationalist thinker, aleksandrrented a flat in moscow so as to monitor daria dugina's movements. they also allegedly attended the patriotic festival outside moscow, where daria and herfather were guests of honour. she died in a car bomb on her way back from that event. ukraine has vehemently denied any involvement. let's talk to mykhailo samus who is military analyst and director at the ukrainian independent platform new geopolitics research network. ukraine is accused of this killing, do you think it was responsible? i’m do you think it was responsible? i'm not too do you think it was responsible? i“n not too sure, if it's a funny story but i, ukrainian pleats on the car, to moscow for literally one month and after this, the easy to ican i can not imagine. it will be familiar with the situation with her in the activities for 30 years even more i would say that it is very probably connected to his commercial activities because actually, he is well known and a propagandist and she is always been trying to create som

reporting, the daughter of one of president putin's close allies, aleksandr dugin, has been killed in a bomb attack. russian media says darya duginaer father — who's often called "putin's brain" — could have been the intended target of the attack. the pair were reportedly set to travel back from an event in the same car. aleksandr dugin is a prominent ultra—nationalist philosopher and strategist. bbc russia's anastasia golubeva has more on this. well, we know that dugin and his daughter, they attended the cultural festival yesterday and they were leaving the festival in two different cars. and it was reported that dugin was supposed to be in the car with his daughter, the car that exploded, but he switched cars in the very last moment. and the russian law enforcement said that the murder of darya dugina is of a contract nature. as they said, there is not much that we know right now but i think the most common belief is that it was an attempted assassination of dugin himself, not his daughter. and it was believed that it was an improvised explosive device that was planted under the bottom of her car that went off eventually. dugin

reporting, the daughter of one of president putin's close allies, aleksandr dugin, has been killed in a bomb attack. russian media says darya duginaat her father — who's often called "putin's brain" — could have been the intended target of the attack. the pair were reportedly set to travel back from an event in the same car. aleksandr dugin is a prominent ultra—nationalist philosopher and strategist. lets go now to bbc russian's anastasia golubeva in riga. tell us first what we know about the bomb explosion, it took place quite close to moscow, is that correct? just outside moscow, a cultural event there, they were leaving in the late evening yesterday. , it was reported he was supposed to get into the car with his daughter. an ill—advised explosive device —— improvised expose of device detonated under the car. something like this pretty _ detonated under the car. something like this pretty unusual— detonated under the car. something like this pretty unusual in _ detonated under the car. something like this pretty unusual in russia? i like this pretty unusual in russia? accidents of this sort happened in the 90s but now to witness

the daughter of one of president putin's close allies, aleksandr dugin, has reportedly been killed in a bomb attack. russian media says darya duginarities but pictures posted on social media show the burning wreck of a car on a suburban road. it's thought that her father — who's often called "putin's brain" — could have been the intended target of the attack. the pair were reportedly set to travel back from an event in the same car. aleksandr dugin is a prominent ultra—nationalist philosopher and strategist. earlier we spoke to steve fish, a political science professor at the university of california, berkeley. if you're going to attack the kind of ideological basis of this invasion of ukraine and of putin's wild new imperialism, this would be the guy to attack. he really is in some ways the author of the kind of ideology or the kind of kind of principles that putin has been following here. he's an ideologist of hyper—nationalism, of imperialism. he's called for russia to become a fully totalitarian state and destroy ukraine. he's got all kinds of bizarre theories about how the world works. geopolitical ideas, political, theoretic

established that ukraine was behind the killing on saturday of daria dugina — daughter of the prominent ultranationalist thinker, aleksandr to monitor daria dugina's movements. they also allegedly attended the fateful patriotic festival outside moscow, where daria and herfather were guests of honour. she died in a car bomb on her way back from that event. ukraine has vehemently denied any involvement. i am joined now by 0leksiy melnyk who is a security analyst at the ukrainian non—governmental think tank razumkov centre. thank you very much for talking to us. what do you make of the fsb's claim? ., ~ us. what do you make of the fsb's claim? . ~' ,, us. what do you make of the fsb's claim? ., ~ i. ., claim? thank you for inviting me. well, it was _ claim? thank you for inviting me. well, it was absolutely _ claim? thank you for inviting me. well, it was absolutely expected | well, it was absolutely expected that all the blame would be put on the ukrainian side. i assume there could be ukrainians by nationality originally but definitely the ukrainian special services would not take this great risk because who is aleksandr d

the daughter of one of president putin's close allies, aleksandr dugin, has been killed in a bomb attack. russian media says darya dugina died after her car exploded near moscow. there's been no comment from the authorities there. it's thought that her father — who's often called "putin's brain" — could have been the intended target of the attack. the pair were reportedly set to travel back from an event in the same car. aleksandr dugin is a prominent ultra—nationalist philosopher and strategist. mr dugin was interviewed by the bbc�*s gabriel gatehouse in 2016. he had this to say about his philosophy. truth is the question of belief and postmodernity shows that every so called truth is the matter of believing. so we believe in what we do, we believe in what we say, and that is the only way to define the truth. so we have our special russian truths that you need to accept as something that maybe is not your truth... even if it's not true? but if the truth is relative, that doesn't mean that truth doesn't exist. for more we can join eastern european political analyst sergej sumlenny in berlin. good to see you. what more d

the daughter of one of president putin's close allies, aleksandr dugin, has been killed in a bomb attack. russian media says darya duginaometimes described as putin's brain, was the target. the pair were reportedly set to travel back from an event in the same vehicle, but mr dugin switched at the last minute. just outside moscow, there was a cultural event there, they were leaving this late evening yesterday. they arrived in two cars. alexander dugin, it was reported he was supposed to get into the car with his daughter. the is which scores in the very last moment and went home with somebody else. they, his daughter was in exploded eventually. an improvised explosive of device detonated under the bottom of her car. is it fair to say something like this pretty unusual in russia? it is. if you know the history of russia, russia, accidents of this sort happened in the �*90s but now to witness such an explosion just outside moscow is quite unusual and shocking to many. law enforcement do not have any official version on who might be behind this death. but they said this murder, daria dugina, is of a contract nature. i notic

darya dugina, a political commentator, was killed when a bomb exploded in the car she was driving. at the scene, her father, aleksandr nationalist philosopher. russian media said mr dugin was meant to travel in the car with his daughter, but changed his mind at the last minute, and there is speculation he was the intended target. darya dugina, like herfather, was a vocal supporter of russia's invasion of ukraine. she was a regular guest on russian television, calling the war a clash of civilisations. both she and her father have been sanctioned by the west. some analysts say president putin is close to aleksandr dugin, although the nature of their relationship is unclear. but mr dugin�*s radical nationalism has helped shape the kremlin�*s foreign policy, including on ukraine. his political movement, eurasianism, sees russia as the centre of a new empire that will challenge the west. back in 2016, mr dugin spoke to the bbc�*s gabriel gatehouse about his views. so we have our special russian truth that you need to accept as something that maybe is not your truth. even if it's not true? but if the truth is relative, tha

aleksandr dugin. the russians said a ukrainian agent had entered the country injuly, and planted a bomb under 29—year—old daria dugina'srning in moscow. stay with us on bbc news. still to come — the return of the liberator, brazil's first emperor arrives to celebrate its bicentennial, or at least part of him does. he's the first african—american to win the presidential nomination of a major party, and he accepts exactly 45 years to the day that martin luther king declared, "i have a dream." as darkness falls tonight, an unfamiliar light will appear in the south—eastern sky. an orange glowing disc that's brighter than anything, save the moon — our neighbouring planet, mars. horn toots. there is no doubt that this election| is an important milestone in the birth of east timori as the world's newest nation. it will take months, and billions of dollars, to repair what katrina achieved injust hours. three weeks is the longest the great clock has been off duty in 117 years, so it was with great satisfaction that clockmakerjohn vernon swung the pendulum to set the clock going again. big ben bongs this is bbc world news. the l

aleksandr dugin, daria, who died as a result of an attempt. the jeep in which she was traveling exploded while driving. for the great- grandfather for 45 pieces, one way or another, well, daria duginat that came to our minds personally was that god is not a fool and let me have more of these same black-mouthed skunks and nightingales and so on . simonyan really thinks that he is in a fairy tale they are not for inciting hatred for the death of ukrainians and dancing on the bones, nothing will happen. that's what daria dugina was, and ukraine has become a training ground, absolutely a training ground for the west. this is the sanitary border, this is the space that separates russia from europe and disrupts all cooperation. day during the last place this lady was happy about the missile attack on ukraine and the debilitated people, but we started this operation very delicately, carefully, but maybe sometimes you need to be a little tougher and a little less forgiving, the most striking - this is the symphony, it stopped in the wind , massive pieces of metal are swaying, something falls and all this creates the most beautiful anal music in the world, let's say more, she even went to d

dugina his father and how close he is with putin. and how might that play into the criminal response? >> i, mean there's no question that aleksandrugin, going back to two decades ago when i was in moscow and i was reporting for the washington post, he was sort of one of the intellectual godfathers of this quote unquote eurasia movement. the idea, essentially that russia's path is not of immigration with europe and the west. but it has its own special destiny, if you. well and he's built the whole infrastructure around that. and a subsequent couple of decades, his daughter was involved in this. she was a spokesperson for her father's causes. she was sanctioned, by the way, by both the united states and great britain in recent months after putin launched the invasion of ukraine. and, she was the editor of a website that was founded -- sorry funded by yevgeny prefrozen who was of a family who we were talking in a previous segment. the funder of the internet research agency with figured in the 2016 hacking of the u.s. election. so you know she and her father absolutely part of the ideological underpinning of poutine-ism if you will.