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On Saturday in a Moscow suburb not far from the Kremlin a car bomb exploded, killing a young political commentator, Daria Dugina.
Given the brutal war Russia is prosecuting in Ukraine and a long history of shadowy political violence in Russia, the killing has prompted a surge of claim, counterclaim, accusation and conspiracy theory.
It also has the potential to further fuel a war that is being championed in Russia not just by Putin and the Kremlin, but by a growing ultra-nationalist movement.
Today on Please Explain, Nick O'Malley is joined by digital foreign editor Chris Zappone, who has closely followed Russian politics and its growing fault lines with the west and the rest of the world.
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