There aren't a lot of things that are extraordinary about Putin, but his greed is truly extraordinary. — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Putin needed an enemy, an Other, against which to mobilize. LGBT people are really convenient: we're sort of the ultimate foreign agent. — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Putin is an uneducated, unintelligent, uncultured man who has no plan. — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
I think Putin's popularity was genuine when he first came to power. He was seen as a welcome relief from the Yeltsin… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
I've learned over the years to hear what Putin is railing against in his own railing way. — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
I looked at Putin and was terrified from the very beginning. That makes me look very prescient because he actually turned out… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Many Americans have been looking for an explanation for Mr. Trump's apparent adoration of Mr. Putin. How can a powerful, wealthy American… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
“[following the Kursk disaster].. "Putin appeared on CNN's Larry King Live. When King asked "What happened?", Putin shrugged, smiled - impishly, it… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Putin has this ritual of having the televised meetings with ministers. Cameras will be allowed in to film the first five minutes… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
What Trump is not smart enough to even grasp is that the kind of popularity that Putin has can only be achieved… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
It's not just that both Putin and Trump lie, it is that they lie in the same way and for the same… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
It seems that probably Putin's father maintained some connection to the secret police throughout his life. One sign of that is that… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Every time I talk to somebody about Putin, it's like, 'But isn't he vastly popular?' Is that really the most important question?… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
For the first ten years, Vladimir Putin was constructing his power structure, and now he's defending it. He's retrenching, mobilizing a shrinking… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
The rest of Russia is watching the same television that Vladimir Putin is watching. As far as they're concerned, Pussy Riot was… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
When I was touring with my Vladimir Putin biography, which was published all over the world, people would ask me, How come… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
The reason Vladimir Putin released Pussy Riot, the Greenpeace activists who were kidnapped in international waters and kept in prison for two… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
For the first stage of his dictatorship, Vladimir Putin was involved in destroying public space. On the first day he was in… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Of course, Putin may well have reasons for wanting Trump to be president - not least Trump's apparent skepticism toward NATO and… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
I don't have a lot of hope for Russia when Putin goes, because I think that the kind of damage that has… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
I really can't abide conspiracy theories, because I believe that everything in the world stems from idiocy and incompetence. That's certainly true… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Putin really assumed that once Trump - who had such clear admiration for him - was elected, it would be convenient for… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Trump very much wants to be liked by Putin and I think sincerely admires him. Putin doesn't know how to deal with… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Putin was very careful to gradually sort of rotate people in and out of power, to make sure that he had competent… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Putin has built a mobilisation society, his sky high popularity numbers, which Donald Trump so envies, are fully dependent on being able… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Both Trump and Putin use language primarily to communicate not facts or opinions but power: it's not what the words mean that… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Putin, I believe, was actually born to be a KGB agent. And I say born because I think that his father was… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
I think that Putin's strategy has been throwing a lot of money, fairly haphazardly, at a lot of projects aimed at disrupting… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
There's this American pretense, which is the pretense of the journalist with the view from nowhere - which has somehow morphed into the journalist… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Pussy Riot have certainly changed some people's assumptions about the role of political art and the relationship between the intelligentsia and the church. That's… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Trump, like Putin, has a demonstrably thin skin and short temper when it comes to being criticized by journalists. — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
You risk everything if you so much as join a legal protest demonstration in Russia. It raises the stakes. — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Donald Trump creates word salads. And that is awful to language, because we try to parse out what he's saying and try to find… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
It is the first time since 1993 that Russians have come out into the streets without an explicit permission from the government to do… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
I think Donald Trump was brought to power by Americans. They voted for him. — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
In the 1990s, there was a lot of reform, and there was a lot of forward movement on a lot of fronts in Russia.… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Poverty and scarcity are actually very good for totalitarian societies. They maintain that sense of mobilization that's essential for totalitarian societies. — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
I think that Putin's strategy has been throwing a lot of money, fairly haphazardly, at a lot of projects aimed at disrupting Western relations… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Both Trump and Putin use language primarily to communicate not facts or opinions but power: it's not what the words mean that matters but… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
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