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. Only a person who had lost his livelihood or half his savings would have been able to report that the economy was failing.


"The News in Moscow" (27 December 2014), The New Yorker.

Masha Gessen Quotes

After nearly fifteen years of systematic destruction of public space, engineered by Putin, the normal ways by which regular people absorb information ...

After nearly fifteen years of systematic destruction of public space, engineered by Putin, the normal ways by which regular people absorb information ...

After nearly fifteen years of systematic destruction of public space, engineered by Putin, the normal ways by which regular people absorb information ...

After nearly fifteen years of systematic destruction of public space, engineered by Putin, the normal ways by which regular people absorb information ...