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". References 1935 births 2019 deaths Press secretaries Russian journalists Soviet journalists People from Magnitogorsk Antisemitic propaganda