Yury Dud

Yury Dud is a Russian sports journalist and YouTuber. He launched his YouTube channel Vdud (2017) where he interviews famous figures from Russia and other post-Soviet states. Dud considers himself to be of Ukrainian origin and Russian by identity. He was born in East Germany and has lived in Russia since the age of 4. Since 2001, he worked in Russian newspaper Izvestia as a freelance journalist, and became a staff journalist at the age of 16. In 2008 Yuri Dud graduated from the MSU Faculty of Journalism. In 2007, he worked in sports magazine "PROsport", then in the sports division of NTV Plus. In 2011-2013, Dud hosted a TV show "Headbutt" at Russia-2. In 2015-2017, he started another show called "KultTura" for TV channel Match TV. From 2011 to 2018, Dud was an editor-in-chief of Sports. In 2018, he moved to the position of Deputy Director-General.