Speaking with: journalist Masha Gessen on Putin’s Russia

Published: August 28, 2014 4:47pm EDT

Judith Armstrong, The University of Melbourne

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Judith Armstrong
Honorary Associate Professor in Arts and Languages & Linguistics, The University of Melbourne

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Speaking with: journalist Masha Gessen on Putin’s Russia

Russian-American writer and LGBT activist, Masha Gessen has covered every major development in Russian politics and culture of the past two decades. She is the author of Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot (2014), as well as six other books, including the international bestseller The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (2012).

Here, Judith Armstrong talks to Gessen about protest and politics in Putin’s Russia.

Masha Gessen is appearing at the Melbourne Writers’ Festival tonight and tomorrow and is also a guest of the Sydney Opera House Festival of Dangerous Ideas over the weekend.

Read more coverage of the Melbourne Writers’ Festival.

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