Russian police have launched a homicide investigation over the death of Darya Dugina, who was killed after a bomb placed in the car she was driving went off.
, died at the scene and a homicide investigation has been opened, said the committee, which probes major crime cases in Russia.
Mr Dugin, 60, sometimes called "Putin's Rasputin" or "Putin's brain," is an outspoken Russian ultra-nationalist intellectual. A Ukrainian presidential adviser, Mykhailo Podolyak denied that Kyiv authorities were behind the bombing.
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