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Anatoliy Yuryevich Baranov (Russian: Анатолий Юрьевич Баранов; born December 18, 1959) is a Russian journalist, publicist and politician.[1][2] He is the editor-in-chief of the Форум.мск.[3][4][5][6][7] From 2003 to 2007, he was the editor-in-chief of the official website of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (cprf.ru).[1][8]
Anatoliy Baranov | |
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| Born | December 18, 1959  |
| Occupation | Journalist, political scientist |
Until 2012, member of the Board of Left Front (Russia).[9] He is a member of the Politburo of the United Communist Party.[10]
He received a Medical Degree.[11] Baranov started his career as a journalist in the newspaper Moskovskij Komsomolets in the 1980s.[8] From 1993 to 1996, he worked for the newspaper Pravda.[1][12]
He was a member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (until 2007).[1] CPRF and Gennady Zyuganov accused him of Trotskyism. He left the party.[13]
On March 10, 2010 he signed an appeal of the Russian opposition stating "Putin must go".[1]
He was awarded a Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow".[8]
Anatoliy Baranov is the author of the books “The Aroma of Rotting”, the novel-feuilleton “The Recent History of the City of Foolov”, “The Shadow Cabinet of the Opposition”.[1] Also he is the author of works in the collection of stories Ticket to America together with Mikhail Popov, Andrei Gusev and others.
Anatoliy Baranov served as a prototype for one of the characters – Anatoliy Ovtsov, a journalist of the newspaper Moskovskij Bogomolets, which is very similar to the famous Moskovskij Komsomolets – in the novel Journalists by Sergei Aman. Also Baranov served as a prototype for one of the main characters – Anatoliy Barinov, a politiсion from Moscow – in the thriller novel The World According to Novikoff by Andrei Gusev.[14][15][16]
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