Party leader Sergei Mironov called the incident on Saturday “a terrorist act” and blamed Ukraine. A year later, Prilepin's party merged with the nationalist A Just Russia party that has seats in the parliament.Ī co-chair of the newly formed party, Prilepin won a seat in the State Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament, in the 2021 election, but gave it up. In 2020, he founded a political party, For the Truth, which Russian media reported was backed by the Kremlin. Last year, he was sanctioned by the European Union for his support of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. He was involved in the conflict in eastern Ukraine on the side of Russian-backed separatists. Prilepin became a supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2014, after Putin illegally annexed the Crimean peninsula. Russian news outlet RBC reported, citing unnamed sources, that Prilepin was traveling back to Moscow on Saturday from Ukraine’s partially occupied Donetsk and Luhansk regions and stopped in the Nizhny Novogorod region for a meal. Officials once again blamed Ukrainian intelligence agencies.
Petersburg killed a popular military blogger, Vladlen Tatarsky. Last month, an explosion in a cafe in St. In August 2022, a car bombing on the outskirts of Moscow killed Daria Dugina, the daughter of an influential Russian political theorist often referred to as "Putin's brain.” The authorities alleged that Ukraine was behind the blast. “Responsibility for this and other terrorist acts lies not only with the Ukrainian authorities, but with their Western patrons, in the first place, the United States, who since the coup d’etat of February 2014 have painstakingly nurtured the anti-Russian neo-Nazi project in Ukraine,” the ministry said, referring to the 2014 uprising in Kyiv that forced the Russia-friendly president to flee.
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