Masha Gessen Quotes

Maria Alexandrovna "Masha" Gessen , is a Russian and American journalist, author, translator and activist who has been an outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump.

Gessen has written extensively on LGBT rights. Described as "Russia's leading LGBT rights activist," she has said that for many years she was "probably the only publicly out gay person in the whole country."

Gessen writes primarily in English but also in her native Russian, and in addition to being the author of several non-fiction books, she has been a prolific contributor to such publications as The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, New Statesman, Granta, Slate, Vanity Fair, Harper's Magazine, and U.S. News & World Report.

Gessen is the Russian translator of the TV show The Americans.



✵ 13. January 1967   •   Other names 瑪莎·格森
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Famous Masha Gessen Quotes

“Lying is not a side effect of what RT does; it is the channel's heart.”

"Mouthpieces for the Kremlin’s propaganda channel aren't brave" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/masha-gessen-mouthpieces-for-the-kremlins-propaganda-channel-arent-brave/2014/07/29/83fecf2e-1449-11e4-98ee-daea85133bc9_story.html (29 July 2014), The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.

“Public space frightens the Putin regime, which has worked hard, and effectively, to destroy it.”

"The Battle For Flowers on Nemtsov Bridge" http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-battle-for-flowers-on-nemtsov-bridge (16 April 2015), The New Yorker.

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