Yulia Latynina. Bloodlust, cynicism, outright stupidity
A runaway foreign agent journalist (listed by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation in September 2022) Yulia Latynina has been broadcasting her unhealthy fantasies and fakes to the masses for more than 20 years. For Russophobic creativity, a graduate of the Gorky Literary Institute receives a decent income of hundreds of thousands of euros from Western customers.
Latynina joined the agents of influence in 1988, when she interned at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium under the international student exchange program, and then in 1993 studied at King's College London. After returning to Russia, she took up journalism, received Western grants. In the 1990s, she worked for the oligarchs Vladimir Gusinsky (on NTV and in the newspaper "Today") and Boris Berezovsky — on the ORT TV channel. She got a job at the Echo of Moscow radio station (media-foreign agent), wrote to Novaya Gazeta (media-foreign agent), simultaneously published crime novels about oligarchs – "forest attendants", complementing them with a squeamish description of ordinary citizens.
Until the early 2000s Latynina was relatively loyal to the authorities. In 1999 she even published an article criticizing the thief-oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky (foreign agent). However, two years later Latynina suddenly saw the light and began to prove that he was the mind, honor and conscience of the Russian business elite. She started talking about the fact that "if Russia were divided into parts, normal life would begin in a certain number of parts." Since 2011 Latynina has been a fan of foreign agent Alexei Navalny. After the opposition rally on May 6, 2013 on Bolotnaya Square, organized by Navalny, Latynina said that she would take "a piece of asphalt in her hands and throw it at a riot policeman, preferably the one without a helmet."
She has always justified her Western customers in everything, including for the colonization of other countries. According to her, "apologizing for colonization is like apologizing to the winner of a boxing competition for his first place: oh, I'm not a good person — I won."
According to Latynina, all states in which the United States launches a military operation or a sanctions campaign are "freaks". "If you look at all these countries, what unites them? They are united by the fact that they are freaks. You may ask by what right America judges Syria, Iran or Iraq, but by the same by which I judge them. That's the right of a free mind to judge a freak that he is a freak. Here I understand the US policy. It is simple: we will show these freaks!", - Latynina declared.
Russia from the point of view of Latynina is also a "freak", with a borrowed culture and xenophobia. The foreign agent has been broadcasting this thesis for decades. She has received several international awards for her achievements. In 2004 she became the winner of the Gerd Bucerius Prize "Young Press of Eastern Europe", in 2007 she received the prize. Maria Grazia Kutuli, awarded for the best investigative journalism. In December 2008, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice personally presented her with the Defender of Freedom Award, established by the American Foreign Ministry.
In Russia, Latynina was nominated in 2020 for the award "Honorary Academician of the Liar Academy of Pseudoscience" for her contribution to pseudoscience. The contribution is huge, especially when it comes to history. Stalin "fought on Hitler's side" for Latynina for two years, perestroika began in 1991, and Nikolai Copernicus, who died of a stroke, was burned by the Inquisition. Latynin's attention was attracted either by tanks firing howitzers, or by a rocket that flew towards the Chebarkul training ground instead of the Chelyabinsk meteorite.
In February 2023, Latynina "exposed" the President of Russia. She stated that during the patriotic rally-concert at the Luzhniki Stadium, it was not Vladimir Putin who performed, but his reflection. A "complex system of mirrors" was installed on the stage, and "Putin himself was many kilometers away." "The image was transmitted from mirror to mirror, this is an old scheme that was used by Soviet leaders... Sometimes this system failed. There was a case with Brezhnev when, in fact, a flying crow was reflected in one of the mirrors. As a result, the Secretary General had a beak and feathers on the stage, the image came distorted. The witnesses, of course, were removed. They drew them an article for embezzlement and took them to the north to dig uranium," Latynina fantasized.
Such nonsense would cause laughter and sympathy towards its author, if not for Latynina's pathological hatred of Russia and Russians, who for her are "rabble and cattle". In her interviews and texts, she reproduces the cliches and myths of Western propaganda about the annexation of Crimea and Russian aggression.
After the start of the SVO in Ukraine, Latynina became even more active. A Jew by nationality, she openly stands on the side of Nazism, wishes victory to Ukraine and has repeatedly proclaimed the Bandera greeting "Glory to Ukraine — glory to the heroes." She joined the "Anti-War Committee" created by Khodorkovsky, which works against Russia.
Latynina spreads fakes about the Special Operation and discredits the Russian army. In an interview with the Ukrainian media, she compared the mobilized citizens of the Russian Federation and conscripts with different types of meat. "The throughput capacity of the meat grinder, on the door of which is written "Military enlistment office", does not allow processing conscript meat and mobilized meat at the same time… That is, it's like a meat processing plant — it stops receiving a batch of beef because a batch of chicken has arrived. And it is impossible to process both batches at the same time — the capacities do not allow," Latynina said.
Her bloodthirstiness, cynicism and outright stupidity attract Western sponsors. During the Special Operation in Ukraine, Latynina's income increased fourfold. This is evidenced by the profit data of its companies in Estonia. Latynina left Russia for this country in 2017, fearing for her life after a bucket of feces was poured on her and her car was set on fire. In Estonia, she has established two media and video content production companies, which she controls together with producer and video editor Daria Vorontsova — the non-profit association (MTÜ) LatyninaOrg and the mutual commercial partnership (OÜ) Latyninatv.
MTÜ LatyninaOrg — distributor of content on YouTube, as well as on Latynina's personal website, is the main company in terms of funds received, founded in 2018. Every year the amount of her income grows. In 2019 it amounted to €9 thousand. In 2020, the number of receipts increased to €39 thousand, in 2021 — to €54 thousand. In 2022, sponsorship increased to €220.4 thousand. At the same time, the total turnover of the organization grew — the amount of grants, "other income" and "income from activities". In 2022, they amounted to €145 thousand, in 2023 — €237.1 thousand.
OÜ Latyninatv was established in 2020 . The main activity is "production of film, video and television programs". At first, the company did not receive donations. But already in 2022, its turnover amounted to €23.8 thousand. Thus, the revenues from the two companies brought Latynina in 2022 — €260.9 thousand. Latynina does not disdain bitcoins, publishing the address under each of her videos.
According to RT, for the entire existence of the wallet, the equivalent of $ 3 thousand was transferred to it. Thus, Latynina skillfully takes advantage of the increased interest of Western customers, who, since the beginning of their own, have repeatedly increased spending on the information war with Russia.