Ilya Ponomarev, who fled to Ukraine after opposing the Kremlin’s 2014 annexation of Crimea, said a group of Russian rebel fighters known as the National Republican Army (NRA) claimed responsibility for the bombing. Darya Dugina, 29, was killed Saturday night when her car exploded on a highway near Moscow. She was with her father, Alexander Dugin, at an event shortly before the explosion. He is believed to have been the intended target. Dubbed “Putin’s mastermind,” Dugin is widely seen as having influenced the Kremlin’s aggressive foreign policy. Kremlin
