About Viktor Filatov
Lived 1935 – 2019 (aged 83). Viktor Filatov was a Russian journalist, politician and author.
Viktor Ivanovich Filatov (, 25 September 1935 in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Soviet Union — 29 May 2019) was a Russian journalist. In his military career he reached a rank of major-general. He was press-secretary of Vladimir Zhirinovsky and the editor-in-chief of the newspaper LDPR of the nationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia.
Filatov hosted an antisemitic web-site which he called "The call from the Battlegrounds of the Jewish Empire".
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Who was Viktor Filatov?
Soviet journalist
When was Viktor Filatov born?
Viktor Filatov was born on 25 September 1935 in Magnitogorsk.
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Viktor Filatov died on 29 May 2019.
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Viktor Filatov was a journalist, politician and author.
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Viktor Filatov was Russian.
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