Alexander Gelevich at the farewell ceremony with his daughter:
«Almost her first words, which, of course, we taught her, was «Russia», our state, our people, our empire <…> she had one desire: «Do not remember me, do not glorify me. Fight for our great country! Defend our faith, our Orthodoxy, love our Russian people, «Because she died for the people, she died for Russia at the front, and this front is here. In each of us. And this great price that we had pay, can only be justified by the highest achievement — Victory! Victory of our truth, our Orthodoxy, our state» with these words, Alexander Dugin concluded his speech during his farewell to his daughter
«I’m grateful and touched. I didn’t think that she was so known and treated like that...», he added.
Alexander Dugin remembers the last day of his daughter’s life: «Dad, I feel like a warrior, I feel like a hero. I want to be on the side of the forces of light — that’s the most important thing,» these are the last words of Daria Dugina, which she said at the festival.
On the evening of August 22, Vladimir Putin signed a decree awarding Daria Dugina the Order of Courage posthumously.
It also became known that the murder was planned only for the journalist. Her father was not of interest to the Ukrainian special services.