Biography
Zlobin was born in the USSR in Moscow on March 3, 1958.
Zlobin's father was Vasiliy Ivanovich Zlobin (1919–2008). He was a World War II veteran and earned a PhD in history. He served as a distinguished professor of history at Moscow State University from 1951 through 2008. Vasiliy authored a number of works on political history, World War II and theory of political parties in Russia and in the Soviet Union that were published in the US, Russia and Europe.
Zlobin's mother was Clara Konstantinovna Bondarenko (Zlobina) (1928–2003). She was a nuclear physicist and worked at the USSR Academy of Sciences.
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