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Yevgeni Anatolyevich Popov (Евгений Анатольевич Попов) (born Krasnoyarsk, 1946) is a Russian writer, best known for short stories. He trained as a geologist, but from 1975 supported himself in Moscow in order to write.
His involvement in the Metropol Affair in 1979 - a publishing venture by independent minded writers that attempted to circumvent Soviet censorship - meant he was unable to publish in Russia until Glasnost in 1986. His stories began to be published in large numbers in the 1990s; he has also written numerous novels considered in the metafiction tradition. He makes use of elements of fairy tale construction and literary parody.
Since the early 2000s he has been an active internet blogger on Live Journal and a vocal critic of Vladimir Putin's government.