Analysis: rapid detection of supposed culprit by the FSB raises question of why no arrest was made
Additionally, while it is true that Dugin is hardly the Putin-whisperer that some make him out to be, there is no doubt that he does have high name recognition both in Russia and the west, and he has made frequent, odious calls for violence against Ukraine and Ukrainians.
Other versions of events floated also seem far from watertight. On Sunday, the former Russian MP Ilya Ponomarev, now living in exile in Kyiv,that partisans from a hitherto-unknown group called the National Republican Army were behind the attack, adding an unexpected and intriguing dimension to the case. But Ponomarev did not provide any evidence, and many observers have dismissed the claim as a publicity stunt.
However, it is not clear that Russia needed any pretext to continue its aggression, and if the whole case was a set-up, it is one that makes the FSB and Russian state look curiously vulnerable and incompetent.
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