Masha Gessen Quotes
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Attacks by poisoning are possibly even more common in Russia than assassinations by gunfire.
Lying is not a side effect of what RT does; it is the channel's heart.
Public space frightens the Putin regime, which has worked hard, and effectively, to destroy it.
Russian activists and journalists who get enough death threats and take them sufficiently seriously to hire bodyguards are also usually careful about what they ingest.
After nearly fifteen years of systematic destruction of public space, engineered by Putin, the normal ways by which regular people absorb information about the state of their country are gone.
Like the Soviet regime before it, the Putin government spreads fear by destroying the illusion that one can protect oneself...
Is Russia a fascist state? A totalitarian one? A dictatorship? A cult of personality? A system? An autocracy? An ideocracy? A kleptocracy? The best description of the Russian state is a mafia state.
Trump has struck more countries with more fire power in a week than Putin often does in a year. Where Putin's unpredictable persona is a carefully cultivated one, Trump has given no evidence that his madman act is an act.
No powerful political actor had set out to destroy the American political system itself — until, that is, Trump won the Republican nomination. He was probably the first major party nominee who ran not for president but for autocrat. And he won.
[On Trump] He talks and you don’t even know where the punctuation marks fall. And the more you try to engage with those words, the less they mean.