Yulia Leonidovna Latynina (russian: Ю́лия Леони́довна Латы́нина; born 16 June 1966) is a Russian writer and journalist. She is a columnist for ''

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'' and the most popular host at the

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radio station for years. Yulia Latynina has written more than twenty books, including fantasy and crime fiction.

Biography

Yulia Latynina was born in

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on 16 June 1966. Her father is poet Leonid Latynin and her mother is literary critic Alla Latynina. Yulia Latynina studied

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at the

Maxim Gorky Literature Institute The Maxim Gorky Literature Institute (russian: Литературный институт им. А. М. Горького) is an institution of higher education in Moscow. It is located at 25 Tverskoy Boulevard in central Moscow. History The insti ...

from 1983 to 1988. In 1993, she defended her

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at the Gorky Institute of World Literature. Latynina worked for periodicals ''Segodnya'' (1995–96), ''

Izvestia ''Izvestia'' ( rus, Известия, p=ɪzˈvʲesʲtʲɪjə, "The News") is a daily broadsheet newspaper in Russia. Founded in 1917, it was a newspaper of record in the Soviet Union until the Soviet Union's dissolution in 1991, and describes i ...

'' (1996–97), ''

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'' (1997–98), ''Sovershenno Secretno'' (1999–2000), ''Ezhednevny Zhurnal'' (2005–15) and '' Gazeta.ru'' (2006–2013). She also worked for television channels NTV (2000–01), ORT (2001–02), TVS (2002–03) and

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(2003–04). Currently, she is a columnist for ''

'' (since 2001) and a host of the show ''Access Code'' at radio station

(since 2003). Latynina was a member of the

Committee 2008 "Committee 2008: A Free Choice" (russian: Комитет 2008: Свободный выбор; ''Komitet 2008: Svobodnyy vybor'') was an umbrella organization of the Russian democratic opposition, launched on 29 January 2004 and broke up in the spri ...

. In 2007, Italian newspaper ''

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'' named her best foreign journalist in an award ceremony dedicated to

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. In 2008, Yulia Latynina received the Freedom Defenders Award from the

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. She has been a member of the

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since February 2022. In September of the same year, she was included in the Russian list of foreign agents.

Views

Yulia Latynina is known for her sharp and

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statements. She argues that

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is bad for poor countries. She also criticizes western liberalism and human rights organizations which she thinks are used by Muslim extremists as useful idiots to prevent winning the

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. She considers that the magnitude of

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and its damage is "usually exaggerated". By her opinion, Moscow Helsinki Group was wrong supporting Russian scientist

Igor Sutyagin Igor Vyacheslavovich Sutyagin (russian: И́горь Вячесла́вович Сутя́гин; born 17 January 1965) is a Russian arms control and nuclear weapons specialist. In 1998, he became the head of the subdivision for Military-Technical ...

, who she suggested could actually be involved in espionage. She argued that although communications of Sutyagin with foreign spy agencies have never been proven, the foreign agency that he passed information on was indeed highly suspicious. Latynina has been a consistent critic of leftist politics. In September 2020, she said: "I. e, the owners of Sargon-like countries are witnessing the same propaganda, a similar technology of total lies combined with socialism and leftist ideas. It penetrates all the structures of Western society... Here, the USSR used to be creating socialism for everyone, and, in the United States, the politicians were a lot smarter. Even those with the left oliticalorientation have been creating socialism only for the poor".

Attacks

On the night of 18 and 19 July 2017, Latynina was attacked at her home with a very pungent and caustic type of gas of unknown composition being sprayed throughout her house. Along with herself, 8 people were additionally injured in the gas attack, including four elderly people and two children. She said that she would not bring the case to the police (as police had not investigated some attacks on opposition politicians), stating "I will not be a part of this comedy." On 2 September, Latynina's car was set on fire. The investigator said that "the car caught fire by itself". On 9 September, Latynina announced that she left Russia with her relatives and would not be going to return "in the near future". She called the car's arson an attempted murder.Юлия Латынина уехала из России после поджога машины Подробнее на РБК

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