Yasha Levine is a Soviet-American journalist and writer. He is the author of Surveillance Valley, a book about the forgotten counterinsurgency history of the Internet. He just released Pistachio Wars, documentary about Beverly Hills farmers, marketing madness, drought, and environmental collapse — streaming now!

He is currently producing Inheritance, a horror feature film directed by Evgenia Kovda, and making a Vampire Valley, a documentary about how the internet is destroying our minds and destroying the planet.

Read and listen to his latest at NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS.


"Contentious…forceful…salutary."
The New Yorker


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