Catastrophe Quote by Masha Gessen

“It's not natural for people in the opposition to leave. It's always a personal catastrophe.”

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There's this American pretense, which is the pretense of the journalist with the view from nowhere - which has somehow morphed into the journalist…

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Where incompetence is prized, it is ever-present.

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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…

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Trump, like Putin, has a demonstrably thin skin and short temper when it comes to being criticized by journalists.

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You risk everything if you so much as join a legal protest demonstration in Russia. It raises the stakes.

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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…

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It is the first time since 1993 that Russians have come out into the streets without an explicit permission from the government to do…

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I think Donald Trump was brought to power by Americans. They voted for him.

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In the 1990s, there was a lot of reform, and there was a lot of forward movement on a lot of fronts in Russia.…

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Poverty and scarcity are actually very good for totalitarian societies. They maintain that sense of mobilization that's essential for totalitarian societies.

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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…

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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…

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