The daughter of an influential Russian writer was killed on a highway west of Moscow.

The Russian authorities said on Sunday that a car bomb killed Daria Dugina, the adult daughter of a prominent Russian ultranationalist whose writings helped lay the ideological foundation for President Vladimir V. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

The authorities said they had opened a murder investigation into the death of Ms. Dugina after a Toyota Land Cruiser exploded on a highway 20 miles west of Moscow and burst into flames, scattering pieces across the road.

Ms. Dugina, 29, was a journalist and commentator who shared the hawkish worldview of her father, Aleksandr Dugin, and had been placed under sanctions by the U.S. and British governments for spreading disinformation about Ukraine. Read more

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