Masha Gessen
Masha Gessen began contributing to The New Yorker in 2014 and was a staff writer from 2017 to 2024. They wrote about Russia, Ukraine, autocracy, L.G.B.T.Q. rights, and the Middle East, among other subjects.
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With elections postponed and no foreseeable end to the war with Vladimir Putin and Russia, Masha Gessen writes about the state of Ukrainian democracy under President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Masha Gessen writes that, after eighty years, the site of a mass execution of Jews was about to be commemorated. Then Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Masha Gessen writes about Dmitry Muratov and the journalists of Novaya Gazeta, who report on dangerous conflicts and endure threats of their own.
With Alexey Navalny in prison, one of his closest aides is carrying on the lonely work of the opposition, Masha Gessen writes.
The stories of those who survived detention and torture and are now living undercover in Putin’s Russia.