There's this American pretense, which is the pretense of the journalist with the view from nowhere - which has somehow morphed into… — Masha Gessen He lied 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… — Masha Gessen Art Copy Share Image
Trump, like Putin, has a demonstrably thin skin and short temper when it comes to being criticized by journalists. — Masha Gessen Being Copy Share Image
You risk everything if you so much as join a legal protest demonstration in Russia. It raises the stakes. — Masha Gessen Protest 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… — Masha Gessen Choices 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… — Masha Gessen Explicit Copy Share Image
I think Donald Trump was brought to power by Americans. They voted for him. — Masha Gessen Donald trump 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… — Masha Gessen Constitution 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 Good 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 I think 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 Impossible Copy Share Image
I worked both as a Russian journalist and an American journalist and ran a bunch of magazines in Moscow over the course… — Masha Gessen About Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that there are Russian efforts to disturb the fabric of American democracy, but they're disruption efforts. They're troublemaking… — Masha Gessen American Copy Share Image
For years I was the only publicly out gay person who was not a full-time gay activist: my position as a quasi-foreigner… — Masha Gessen Discrimination Copy Share Image
Since 9/11 we have somehow come to accept the 'radicalization' narrative, which basically holds that people become terrorists through a series of… — Masha Gessen Accept Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that there are Russian efforts to disturb the fabric of American democracy, but they're disruption efforts. The working… — Masha Gessen American democracy Copy Share Image
Donald Trump clearly doesn't have the intellectual capacity to have a concept of what he's doing. I think he has a very… — Masha Gessen Bully Copy Share Image
Russian law on banning nontraditional relationships basically says you cannot have any portrayal, neutral or positive, of homosexual relationships or nontraditional families,… — Masha Gessen Discussion 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 Context 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 American Copy Share Image
One of the things that I really value about Russian culture is that on the private level it allows for a huge… — Masha Gessen Culture Copy Share Image
“One more thing: the regime is a show that conceals what in reality is chaos. What looks orderly and restrictive is in… — Masha Gessen Time and space 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 Believe Copy Share Image
I had a very humane, what the great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova would probably have called 'vegetarian,' experience of migration. It involved… — Masha Gessen Experience Copy Share Image
