Yuliya Latynina

Yulia Latynina was born in Moscow on 16 June 1966. Her father is poet 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, she defended her PhD at the Gorky Institute of World Literature. Latynina worked for periodicals Segodnya (1995-96), Izvestia (1996-97), Expert (1997-98), Sovershenno Secretno (1999-2000), 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). She is a columnist for Novaya Gazeta (since 2001) and a host of the show Access Code at radio station Echo of Moscow (since 2003). Latynina was a member of the Committee 2008. In 2007, Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera named her best foreign journalist in an award ceremony dedicated to Maria Grazia Cutuli. In 2008, Yulia Latynina received the Freedom Defenders Award from the United States Department of State.