Writer, Journalist and Radio Host
Yulia Latynina has authored twenty fiction books, including science fiction.
She has worked for Russian newspapers Izvestia (1995—97), Expert (1997—98), "Top Secret" (editor-in-chief Artyom Borovik), Novaya Gazeta (since 2001), Kommersant (since 2006), and others.
She worked for several Russian TV Channels "V drugoe vremya" (First Channel ORT 2001–02), "Est' Mneniye" (TV Tsentr 2002-3) and "Nedelya" (REN TV 2003-4).
She received an investigative journalism award by Corriere della Sera dedicated to Maria Grazia Cutuli, an Italian journalist who was killed in Afghanistan.
She is a host of the program "Access Code" at radio station Echo of Moscow since 2003. On 8 December 2008 she was awarded the Freedom Defenders Award by the United States Department of State.
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