About Julia
Julia Ioffe is a Soviet-born American journalist, author, and media entrepreneur born in Moscow on October 18, 1982. She immigrated to the United States in 1990 and graduated from Princeton University with a degree in history and a minor in Russian studies. Since 2021, she has been a founding partner and Washington correspondent at the media company Puck, where she co-authors the newsletter The Best & The Brightest covering national security, foreign policy, and domestic politics.
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Journalist / Commentator
Known for
- Reporting on Russian politics and Russian-American relations
- 2011 New Yorker profile of Alexei Navalny
- 2017 Atlantic cover story "What Putin Really Wants
- 2020 investigative reporting on "Havana syndrome" for GQ
- 2025 book Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia
- Co-authoring The Best & The Brightest newsletter at Puck
- Journalist
- Author
- Media entrepreneur
- Television journalist
- Journalism
- Politics
- Foreign policy
- Russian history
- Nonfiction writing
- Russian politics
- Russian-American relations
- National security
- Corruption and anti-corruption activism
- Women's history in Russia
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