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Russian-American investigative journalist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yasha Levine (February 23, 1981)[6][7] is a Russian-American investigative journalist, author and reporter. Levine, who was born in the Soviet Union in the early 1980s, was raised in San Francisco, California.[8][9]
Yasha Levine | |
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Born | Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | February 23, 1981
Nationality | Russian American |
Citizenship | United States |
Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley[1] |
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Spouse | Evgenia Kovda[2] |
Children | 1[3] |
Parents | |
Website | yasha |
Levine's family emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1989 when Levine was 8-years-old,[10][4] first living in a Gresten, Austria refugee camp before living in Castelfusano, Italy (near Ostia, Rome) for five months.[5] In 1990, Levine and his family left Italy for New York.[10] Levine has a brother Eli.[11]
He is a former editor of Moscow-based satirical newspaper The eXile.[12][13] He has written the book Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet which was published in 2018.[14] The New Yorker reviewed Surveillance Valley positively describing it as "forceful" and "salutary".[15] Levine's other books include A Journey Through California's Oligarch Valley, The Koch Brothers: A Short History, and The Corruption of Malcolm Gladwell.[16] Levine was previously a correspondent at PandoDaily.[17] He has also written for Wired, The Nation, Slate, TIME, The New York Observer, The Baffler and more.[18] He is a co-founder of the S.H.A.M.E. Project.
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