Yulia Viktorovna Yuzik (Russian: Юлия Викторовна Юзик; born 23 February 1981[1]) is a journalist and non-fiction writer from Russia.
Yuzik was promoted to the all-Russia edition of Pravda in Moscow, where she worked as a reporter.
After meeting with Chechens, and earlier, in 2001, Dagestani people, she wrote a documentary about suicide bombers Brides of Allah.
Yuzik started to work on the book while on assignment in Dagestan in 2001, and read there in a local edition of all-Russia newspaper Moskovskij Komsomolets about Aiza Gazuyeva, a young Chechen woman who blew herself up near a military office in the Chechen town of Urus-Martan; the woman was the same age as Yuzik, which shocked her.
Her candidacy was registered in the North Caucasus' Republic of Dagestan, where Yuzik campaigned despite having no roots in the region.
In 2018, her laptop was searched at the Tehran airport checkpoint and she was questioned by State Security for one day.
While travelling to Iran to meet friends in 2019, she was detained and spent more than a week in Iranian jail, from October 2 to 9.