Larisa Alexandrovna is a journalist

Journalist

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, essayist, and poet

Poet

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. She has served as the Managing Editor of Investigative News of The Raw Story for the last three years, and contributes opinion and columns to online publications such as Alternet

AlterNet

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. She is also an American blogger for the Huffington Post and for her own journalism blog, at-Largely. Alexandrovna has had her work referenced in Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone

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, Vanity Fair

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, and Newsweek

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 among others.
Alexandrovna was born in the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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 to Jewish parents Aleksander Yurovich, a physicist, and Klavdia Borisovna, an accountant.