20 Facts About Yulia Latynina

Yulia Leonidovna Latynina is an independent journalist, writer, TV and radio host from Russia.

Yulia Latynina grew famous as a columnist for Novaya Gazeta and was the most popular host at the Echo of Moscow radio station for years.

Yulia Latynina is a prolific writer, she has written more than twenty books, including fantasy and crime fiction.

Yulia Latynina's father is writer Leonid Latynin and her mother is literary critic Alla Latynina.

Yulia Latynina studied philology at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute from 1983 to 1988.

Yulia Latynina worked for periodicals Segodnya, Izvestia, Expert, Sovershenno Secretno, and others.

Yulia Latynina worked for television channels NTV, ORT, TVS and REN TV.

In 2003 Yulia Latynina started hosting the show Access Code at a radio station Echo of Moscow.

In 2008, Yulia Latynina received the Freedom Defenders Award from the United States Department of State.

Yulia Latynina received the award from Condoleezza Rice, who praised the journalist for her achievements:.

Yulia Latynina has exposed corruption and abuses of authority among government officials as well as egregious human rights violations by both government authorities and private actors, particularly in the North Caucasus.

Yulia Latynina is known for her sharp and polemic statements.

Yulia Latynina proclaims herself a libertarian; however in its classic meaning of maximal personal freedom, standing in strong opposition to left politics and the woke culture.

Yulia Latynina denies global warming and called Michael E Mann's controversial hockey stick graph a fake, or rather based on bad math; there is no strong model ubiquitously predicting such singular temperature growth.

Yulia Latynina voiced an opinion that universal suffrage was bad for poor countries.

Yulia Latynina criticized western left-liberalism and human rights organizations which she thinks are used by Muslim extremists as useful idiots, as coined by Stalin, to prevent winning the War on Terror.

Yulia Latynina 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.

In retaliation for her political stance and categorical statements, Yulia Latynina became a victim of several attacks.

Yulia Latynina said that she would not bring the case to the officials as police had not investigated some attacks on opposition politicians Dmitry Muratov reported the attack to the police.

Yulia Latynina has been a member of the Anti-War Committee of Russia since February 2022.