«Gleb Ervye: Dasha, please tell us, does it not bother you at all when someone introduces you by saying “the daughter of Dugin,” paying
tribute to Dugin? Daria Platonova Dugina: Well, it’s actually a great honor to be the daughter of such a person. There are things that people strive for over the course of their whole life — they seek wisdom, ideas, whole bodies of knowledge. All of this was already given to me since my childhood. I remember — well, it’s not about remembering as if to romanticise by biography, but the first episode of my political activism was when I was sitting in my mother’s lap while she watched what was happening at the White House. It was 1993, when my dad was out defending the White House. In ’91, he was for the State Committee on the State of Emergency even though he adhered to anti-communist views...