Yulia Leonidovna Latynina (Russian: Ю́лия Леони́довна Латы́нина; born 16 June 1966) is an independent journalist, writer, TV and radio host from Russia.

She grew famous as a columnist for Novaya Gazeta and was the most popular host at the Echo of Moscow radio station for years.

In 2007, Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera named her best foreign journalist in an award ceremony dedicated to Maria Grazia Cutuli.

[8][9] She received the award from Condoleezza Rice, who praised the journalist for her achievements: Yulia has exposed corruption and abuses of authority among government officials as well as egregious human rights violations by both government authorities and private actors, particularly in the North Caucasus.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; there is no strong model ubiquitously predicting such singular temperature growth.

As of the year 2020 she prefers to cite[10] Bjørn Lomborg's position, which acknowledges current temperature raise, which may change to global cooling after not yet determined period as happened before.

[11][12] 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.

[13] In her opinion, Moscow Helsinki Group was wrong in supporting Russian scientist Igor Sutyagin, who she suggested could actually be involved in espionage.

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.

[19] 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.