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Russia’s internal shadow war intensifies

By Janusz Bugajski
Published August 22, 2022 4:36pm ET
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Russia’s internal shadow war intensifies
In this handout photo taken from video released by Investigative Committee of Russia on Aug. 21, investigators work on the site of explosion of a car driven by Daria Dugina outside Moscow. | (Investigative Committee of Russia via AP)

The assassination in Moscow of the daughter of an influential Russian imperial ideologue, Alexander Dugin, has confirmed that the Kremlin’s war against Ukraine is rebounding back into Russia. The FSB, Russia’s security service, quickly blamed Ukrainian operatives for the Moscow attack, but this may be aimed at disguising something even more serious for the regime.

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