Julia Ioffe

Who is Julia Ioffe?

Julia Ioffe is a Russian-American journalist and blogger, whose writings have been published by The Columbia Journalism Review, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Foreign Policy, Forbes, The New Republic and Russia!.

Ioffe was born in Moscow in 1982, and is of Russian-Jewish descent. She emigrated to the United States in 1990, at the age of 7. Ioffe attended Princeton University and earned her degree in history, specializing in Soviet history. She began her career as a fact checker for The New Yorker, before moving to Columbia Journalism School's Knight Foundation Case Studies Initiative. She later won a Fulbright Scholarship to move back to Russia, and worked as the Moscow correspondent for The New Yorker and Foreign Policy. She currently serves as a senior editor for The New Republic in Washington D.C.

Ioffe's work is often openly critical of Russian president Vladimir Putin and Moscow ex-mayor Yuri Luzhkov. She has written of receiving angry emails and letters from Russians, upset over her covering of their country. She is also critical of the Russian state-funded news network RT, seeing it as a Kremlin mouthpiece.