Yulia Alexandrova
Yulia Alexandrova (7th of January 1965, Riga, Latvian SSR) – a Russian-speaking journalist, a teacher.
She was born in Riga on 7th of January 1965, graduated from the faculty of philology of the Latvian State University. She started her journalist career in the newspaper «Sovetskaya Molodezh» (Soviet Youth), which was transformed into “Vesti Segodnya” (News Today).
Julia Alexandrova took part in many journalist competitions, has awards for her articles (1994, 2012). She was the head of the department of education in the newspaper. The key topics of her research are the Russians of Latvia, where she investigates the contribution of the Russians into the foundation of the Russian community and the fate of Russian emigration in Latvia.