Masha Gessen, Russian investigative journalist who visited us March 8th, is back in Moscow (against the advice of her friends, family and readers).
Here's a recent post from the "Latitudes" blog of the New York Times / International Herald Tribune.
MOSCOW — We spent most of April Fool’s Day laughing. My friends and I started right around midnight on Saturday when, sitting around my kitchen table, we began talking about the protest scheduled for the next day, April 1: Strolling in Red Square while wearing white ribbons....
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Thursday, April 5, 2012
Humor and Brutality in Moscow's Red Square
Friday, March 16, 2012
Writers Institute on C-SPAN This Weekend
C-SPAN came to Albany to film our evening event with Russian journalist Masha Gessen on Thursday, March 8th.
The show will be broadcast over the weekend on C-SPAN 2/BookTV.
Saturday evening, March 17th at 7pm (ET)
Sunday morning, March 18th at 4am (ET)
We don't expect too many of you to be watching at 4am on Sunday morning, but please tell us about it if you do!
Link to the C-SPAN website.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Masha Gessen on Charlie Rose, See the Video
Masha Gessen, Moscow-based journalist who visits the Writers Institute today 3/8, appeared on Charlie Rose yesterday. The 23-minute video has been posted online.
Her schedule today is as follows:
Seminar — 4:15 p.m., Standish Room, Science Library, Uptown Campus
Reading — 8:00 p.m., Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center, Uptown Campus.
The events are free and open to the general public.
The show with Charlie Rose will be rebroadcast today at 1 p.m. on Albany's PBS affiliate WMHT.
One of Newsweek's "150 Fearless Women"
Masha Gessen, Moscow-based investigative journalist who visits today 3/8, was recently named one of "150 Fearless Women" by Newsweek/The Daily Beast.
She's the fourth face down in the leftmost column in a mosaic of faces on the Daily Beast webpage.
The text makes note of the fact that "she's been subjected to robberies, threats and intimidation" and that a number of her fellow journalists have been assassinated.
Monday, March 5, 2012
Russia: What Happens Now?
"[T]here is the habit that revolutions have of turning on their own. I have first-hand experience of this. Our revolution has not yet won, and fellow organizers have already on occasion asked me to keep my lesbian, Jewish, and American-passported self off the front pages."
"I realize that in throwing myself headfirst into organizing protests, as I have done in the last couple of months, I have given up the rarefied environment of a certain subset of Moscow intelligentsia, with its cultivated air of tolerance. In the worst-case scenario, the new Russia will be a xenophobic society that will have no place for someone like me. In the best-case scenario, I and others like me will have to come out of our shells and use a newly created public space to educate people about our differences." More.
So writes Masha Gessen today in her blog for the New York Times and International Herald Tribune. The Russian journalist visits Albany on Thursday 3/8.
Friday, March 2, 2012
Masha Gessen: The Death of Litvinenko
From The Man Without a Face by Russian journalist Masha Gessen, who visits March 8:
"On November 23 2006 a man named Alexander Litvinenko died in a London hospital. He was 41 years old, he was an FSB [Russian secret police] officer, and his final days had been broadcast virtually live by the British and some of the Russian media. 'Just three weeks ago he was a happy, healthy man with a full head of hair who regularly jogged five miles a day,' the Daily Mail reported on November 21. Accompanying the piece was a picture of Litvinenko, gaunt and bald, a hospital gown opened at his chest, which was covered with electrodes. 'Mr Litvinenko can barely lift his head, so weak are his neck muscles. He has difficulty speaking and can only talk in short, painful bursts.'" Read more in the Daily Telegraph.
Saturday, February 4, 2012
On the Front Lines with Her 10-Year-Old Daughter
Masha Gessen, who visits March 8, sends a dispatch from Moscow, where she participated in an unusual protest of the current Russian government on the highways that ring the city, with her ten-year-old daughter in the back seat.
"The occasion was a protest against the Russian government staged on the Garden Ring, the 16-kilometer-long road that circles central Moscow."
"As we turned onto the Garden Ring, we placed ourselves behind a compact Citroën while a Lexus SUV got behind us. Both were adorned with white ribbons, which have become the symbol of Russia’s protest movement. As more cars joined in the drive, our speed decreased, until we had white-ribboned cars in lanes on either side of us and the traffic had slowed to a standstill." More in the New York Times.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
You Tubing the Revolution
Masha Gessen, Russian journalist who visits on March 8th, writes about a Russian filmmaker, Pavel Bardin (pictured here), who is creating a compilation of filmed statements by ordinary Russians for publication on YouTube. Article.
MOSCOW — Every night last week, writers, artists, actors, ad men, office managers and assorted others climbed the stairs to the fifth floor of a converted factory building in Moscow to make a statement. Pavel Bardin, a well-known young film director, had set up a camera in a conference room there. Everyone who came in — some by invitation, some having found out about the filming from friends or Facebook — wrote his or her name and vocation on a length of masking tape, and named his or her reason for planning to attend what would be a giant protest on Saturday, the 24th.
Each person followed a simple formula: make an I-statement consisting of just the subject and verb, then expand in a sentence or two. “I love.” “I know.” “I fear.” “I want.” “I can.”
As in, “I love my children…” “I know how to talk to people…” “I fear violence…” “I want to be proud of my country…” “I can imagine a different future…” More.
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