Thursday, August 25, 2022

Perps Unknown

We’ve written a couple of times about the Moscow car bomb assassination of Daria Dugina (sometimes spelled “Darya”) and who might be responsible - Ukraine or someone in Russia. Now comes a Moscow Times article which presents a near-panoply of possible responsible parties. 

At this juncture I conclude there is consensus on neither the intended target nor the perpetrator. Those who are talking don’t know, and those who know aren’t talking.

N.B., Moscow Times is published online about Russia from outside Russia by people not especially pro-Putin. Based now in Amsterdam, it tentatively may be considered “independent” as it doesn’t follow a Kremlin line. 

Wikipedia has the publication’s history, which is interesting. It began as an English language advertiser for expats and tourists in Moscow, added editorial content and grew into an actual newspaper, which later added a Russian language edition and eventually had to leave Russia. Some staff now work from Latvia.