Daria Trepova remanded in jail, charged with terrorism, while National Republican Army takes credit for Tatarsky assassination

A district court in Moscow has granted the prosecution’s motion to remand Daria Trepova, arrested after the blast that killed the pro-Kremlin war blogger Vladlen Tatarsky on Sunday.

Trepova is being charged with terrorism and illicit explosives dealing. She is to remain in custody until June 2, 2023. The court hearing was closed to the press.

According to the prosecution, Trepova delivered a statuette stuffed with explosives to Tatarsky’s reading in St. Petersburg on Sunday afternoon. After she handed the gift to the blogger, the statuette exploded in his hands, killing Tatarsky himself and injuring 40 guests.

The Investigative Committee has qualified what happened as a terrorist attack, asserting that it had been planned and organized in Ukraine.

The investigators have tried to link Trepova’s political sympathies to Alexey Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation. The foundation itself denies any connection to Tatarsky’s killing.

Update: An organization that calls itself the National Republican Army (NRA) claims credit for the Tatarsky assassination. Earlier, it took similar responsibility for killing Daria Dugina, the daughter of the pro-Putin ideologue Alexander Dugin.