Posted on 08/28/2022 12:03:53 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
When a car bomb exploded on the outskirts of Moscow, killing 29-year-old Darya Dugina, the eyes of the West immediately turned to her father, Alexander Dugin -- the ultra-nationalist philosopher credited with being the "spiritual guide" to Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
But Dugina herself played a smaller, public role in advancing Russian soft power -- assailing the West in TV appearances at home, while operating a disguised English-language online platform that pushed a pro-Kremlin worldview to Western readers.
In recent years, she had sought to build influence publicly, often with an international audience in mind. And she was not alone. Dugina was one of a number of influential Russian women on the front lines of Russia's disinformation war, representing the public face of the wider propaganda effort, both at home and abroad.
"There is a huge machine that works for this propagandistic effort, (and) she was a part of this machine," said Roman Osadchuk, a Ukraine-based research associate at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), who has investigated Dugina's writings and digital output since 2020. "She probably had potential to become an important player," Osadchuk told CNN.
Her death provides a window into that vast operation, which exists on multiple levels; Dugina emulated the work of high-ranking Kremlin spokespeople, firebrand TV anchors, activists and countless content creators who -- like her -- pumped out Kremlin-friendly content on Western-facing blogs and websites, many of which have camouflaged origins.
Whatever their reach, "the thing that is similar for all of them is the direction of their effort," Osadchuk said. "The main idea is (to) sow division and distrust towards the governments in the Western world ... (to) create further polarization, or to expose problems and divisions in Western societies."
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Always happy to set you Sorosbots straight on the facts.
Number of CNN articles written about Dugina before she was expertly blown up by the FSB: Zero. Mission accomplished.
I can barely recall any facts you have offered in your posts.
I think your specialty is ad hominem attacks.
If you’re on the receiving end, it’s because you started it. But I’ll finish it. :-)
Actually you won’t because you’re not good at making arguments.
This argument ended a long time ago. You’re the one beating a dead horse, and there ain’t enough of it left to make a capful of glue.
Ok you’ve lost
I’ve won.
You were the one who said you were going to finish it.
I guess you’re just conceding all the arguments.
Nope.
U.S. Believes Ukrainians Were Behind an Assassination in Russia
I still assume Dugin was the target.
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