1. Luke Daniel Harding was born on 21 April 1968 and is a British journalist who is a foreign correspondent for The Guardian.
14 Facts About Luke Harding
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Luke Harding is known for his coverage of Russia under Vladimir Putin, WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden.
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Luke Harding was based in Russia for The Guardian from 2007 until, returning from a stay in the UK on 5 February 2011, he was refused re-entry to Russia and deported the same day.
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Luke Harding was educated at the United World College of the Atlantic in South Wales, then studied English at University College, Oxford.
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Luke Harding worked for The Sunday Correspondent, the Evening Argus in Brighton and then the Daily Mail before joining The Guardian in 1996.
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Luke Harding has lived in and reported from Delhi, Berlin, and Moscow, and has covered wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya.
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On 5 February 2011, Luke Harding was refused re-entry into Russia.
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Lavrov added that Luke Harding had previously broken the rules of his press accreditation by visiting the area of counter-terrorism operations without informing the relevant security authorities.
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Luke Harding has said that during his time in Russia he was the subject of largely psychological harassment by the Federal Security Service, whom he alleges were unhappy at the stories he wrote.
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In 2016, Luke Harding published A Very Expensive Poison, an account of the murder of the Russian ex-KGB whistle-blower and Putin critic Alexander Litvinenko.
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In November 2017, Luke Harding published Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win on the subject of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.
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On 27 November 2018, Luke Harding co-authored an anonymously sourced article for The Guardian claiming that Julian Assange and Paul Manafort met several times at the Ecuadorian embassy in 2013,2015, and 2016 possibly in relation to the 2016 Democratic National Committee email leak.
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In 2020, Luke Harding published the book Shadow State, covering Russian covert operations, from the poisoning of Sergei Skripal by the GRU, to digital influence operations.
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Luke Harding published a book about the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 called Invasion, covering the first part of the conflict from February until September 2022 and based on Luke Harding's reporting from the frontlines.