Julia Loktev

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558 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 7 Feb

Julia Loktev’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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We wanted to have this

be about just ordinary peoples who were trying to create a better world in this society.

And so a lot of the characters are super, super young, you know.

Two of them talk about how they were in first grade when Putin came to power.

Like, she says this beautifully.

She says, well, as long as I've known there was such a thing as a president, because, you know, when you're three, you don't really...

know what a president is.

You know, it's been Putin.

A bunch of the characters are super, super young.

I mean, they're constantly referring to Harry Potter as a way of understanding Putin's Russia.

They watch Gossip Girl.

They hate watch Emily in Paris, you know.

They live in a world that's very connected to our world.

And a lot of them just went straight from journalism school, and many of them decided at a super young age, you know, like at—

14, 15, you know, they decided this is what I want to do.

But now, of course, all of them are now in exile.

None of them can really go back to Russia, can step foot in Russia.

And a lot of them have criminal cases against them.

Russia does this thing where it arrests and sentences people in absentia.

And so, for example, there's a character...

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