Yulia Latynina

Yulia Latynina studied at Maxim Gorky Literature Institute and Gorky Institute of World Literature. Training under Vyacheslav Ivanov is recorded. The recorded working language is Russian and English. The field of work recorded is political analysis, journalism and literary activity. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are political journalism, fantasy, speculative fiction and detective fiction. Places of work recorded in the authority are Moscow. Residence is recorded at Odintsovo. Employment is recorded with Novaya Gazeta. Works named in the authority record are The Insider. Distinctions recorded are ABS Prize.

• Name — Yulia Latynina • Birth Name — Yulia Leonidovna Latynina • Born — 16 June 1966 • Birthplace — Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia) • Education — * Maxim Gorky Literature Institute • Gorky Institute of World Literature (CS) • Occupation — Writer, journalist • Employer — Novaya Gazeta • Notable Works — The Insider • Parents — * Leonid Latynin • Alla Latynina • Website — Her Youtube channel in Russian

Yulia Latynina was born in Moscow on 16 June 1966. Her 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. In 1993, under the supervision of Professor Vyacheslav Ivanov she defended her PhD at the Gorky Institute of World Literature.

Latynina started her journalistic career as an economic columnist. She worked for periodicals Segodnya (1995–96), Izvestia (1996–97), Expert (1997–98), Sovershenno Secretno (1999–2000), and others. By 2000, Latynina already had a reputation as one of the leading journalists in the field of economics. In 2001 she became a columnist for Novaya Gazeta. In the same year, she was invited to host Rublevaya Zona, an analytical programme on NTV. The show started her TV career. In 2003, it was followed by an analytical programm 24 that was broadcast on REN TV. Later, Latynina worked for 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 REN TV (2003–04). In 2003 Latynina started hosting the show Access Code at a radio station Echo of Moscow. In 2007, Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera named her best foreign journalist in an award ceremony dedicated to Maria Grazia Cutuli. • Illustration — Condoleezza Rice presents Latynina with the Freedom Defenders Award in 2008 In 2008, Latynina received the Freedom Defenders Award from the United States Department of State. She received the award from Condoleezza Rice, who praised the journalist for her achievements:

Yulia Latynina is known for her sharp and polemic statements. She proclaims herself a libertarian; however in its classic meaning of maximal personal freedom, standing in strong opposition to left politics and the woke culture. She denies global warming and called Michael E. Mann's controversial hockey stick graph a fake, or rather based on bad math; she believes there is no strong model ubiquitously predicting such singular temperature growth. As of the year 2020 she prefers to cite Bjørn Lomborg's position, which claims current temperature raise, which may change to global cooling after not yet determined period as happened before. She believes there is no proven bad impact from the temperature growth, because earlier it was associated only with rise of civilizations. She believes there is no human, or carbon dioxide role in this because there are much stronger forces, like solar cycles and oceanic currents involved. So she concludes that the carbon dioxide control policies are baseless, and unrealistic. Latynina was a member of the Committee 2008. She voiced an opinion that universal suffrage was bad for poor countries. She also 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. In her opinion, Moscow Helsinki Group was wrong in supporting Russian scientist Igor Sutyagin, 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 [political] orientation have been creating socialism only for the poor". In May 2024, Latyina wrote an article to Novaya Gazeta, titled, "Baby Astyanax and the microwave", where she made comparisons between "barbarians" destroying "blossoming civilisations" and the Palestinians as well as calling students who protested against Israel’s actions in Gaza as "lazy and stupid". In her article dated 25 March 2025, she criticises the statement that Russians as nation have to through the same process that Germans went through after World War II. She states that "after the First World War Germany was labeled to be the guilty one, Austria was separated. New countries of Eastern Europe with the approval of the winners built their local Nazism". She also goes on to say that "Nazism in Europe started not in Germany. It began in these small countries. German Nazism was a response to that". In one more claim she hints that Czechoslovakia was conducting a genocide of Sudeten Germans by comparing their treatment to Rwandan genocide: "Tomáš Masaryk promised to Woodrow Wilson that he'd build a new Switzerland, but instead he built Rwanda. No wonder Sudeten Germans have all supported Hitler."

In retaliation for her political stance and categorical statements, Latynina became a victim of several attacks. On 20 August 2016, she was assaulted by two men in motorcycle helmets who poured feces on her. On the night of 18 and 19 July 2017, unknown assailants attacked Latynina's house and sprayed it with a very pungent and caustic type of gas of unknown composition. 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 officials as police had not investigated some attacks on opposition politicians, however, Dmitry Muratov reported the attack to the police. 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 and her family are leaving Russia and would not return "in the near future". She called the car's arson an attempted murder. According to her father, Latynina had been under surveillance for some time, and the attackers were not bandits but an organized group that received commands from certain influential people.

Latynina has been a member of the Anti-War Committee of Russia since February 2022. In September of the same year, she was included in the Russian list of foreign agents.

• Illustration — Presentation of the book Russian Baker in 2013 Latynina published her first novel in 1990. For some time she used a pen-name Eugene Klimovich, however, most subsequent printings were issued under the author's real name. She works in the genre of sharp detective-adventure prose on Russian material as well as in fiction. In 1995 Latynina won the Russian Booker Prize for her novel Clearchus and Heraclea and the Strannik (Russian Literary Award) for The Preacher. Later she was nominated to the National Bestseller literary prize, as well as the Russian Booker and several others. The total print run of Yulia Latynina's books from 1999 to 2000 has exceeded 500,000 copies. • Year — Title in Russian — Translation — Genre — Cycle • 1991 — «Дело о пропавшем боге» — A Case of the Missing God — Fantasy — Wei Empire • 1994 — «Клеарх и Гераклея» — Clearchus and Heraclea — Fantasy • 1995 — «Бомба для банкира» — The Bomb for the Banker — Crime fiction — Bandit • 1996 — «Колдуны и министры» — Wizards and Ministers — Fantasy — Wei Empire • 1996 — «Сто полей» — The 100 Squares — Fantasy — Wei Empire • 1996 — «Повесть о Золотом Государе» — Tale of the Golden Emperor — Fantasy — Wei Empire • 1997 — «Здравствуйте, я ваша крыша» — Hello, I'm Your Roof — Fantasy • 1999 — «Бандит» — Bandit — Crime fiction — Bandit • 1999 — «Охота на изюбря» — Hunting Elk — Crime fiction — Industrial Area • 1999 — «Инсайдер» — The Insider — Fantasy — Wei Empire • 1999 — «Повесть о государыне Кассии» — Tale of the Empress Cassia — Fantasy — Wei Empire • 1999 — «Дело о лазоревом письме» — Case of the Azure Letter — Fantasy — Wei Empire • 2000 — «Разбор полётов» — Debriefing — Crime fiction — Bandit • 2000 — «Саранча» — Locust — Crime fiction — Bandit • 2000 — «Стальной король» — Steel King — Crime fiction — Industrial Area • 2001 — «Ничья» — The Draw — Crime fiction • 2003 — «Промзона» — Industrial Area — Crime fiction — Industrial Area • 2004 — «Только голуби летают бесплатно» — Only Pigeons Fly for Free — Crime fiction • 2005 — «Джаханнам, или До встречи в Аду» — Jahannam, or See You in Hell — Thriller — Caucasus • 2005 — «Ниязбек» — Niyazbek — Thriller — Caucasus • 2007 — «Земля войны» — The Land of War — Thriller — Caucasus • 2007 — «Нелюдь» — Inhuman — Fantasy • 2009 — «Не время для славы» — No Time for Glory — Thriller — Caucasus • 2012 — «Русский булочник» — Russian Baker — Non-fiction • 2018 — «Иисус. Историческое расследование» — Jesus. Historical Investigation — Non-fiction — Historical Investigation • 2019 — «Христос с тысячью лиц» — Christ with a Thousand Faces — Non-fiction — Historical Investigation • 2025 — «Сотворение Бога» — Creation of God — Non-fiction — Historical Investigation