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Take the opportunity to listen to author and journalist Masha Gessen’s full interview on Vladimir Putin and allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election Maria Alexandrovna is a Russian and American journalist, author, translator and activist who has been an outspoken critic of the President of Russia, VladimirPutin and the President of the U.S.A., Donald Trump. Gessen has written extensively on LGBT rights. Described as "Russia's leading LGBT rights activist," she has said that for many years she was "probably the only publicly out gay person in the whole country." Gessen writes primarily in English but also in her native Russian. In addition to being the author of several non-fiction books, she has been a prolific contributor to such publications as The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, New Statesman, Granta, Slate, Vanity Fair, Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, and U.S. News & World Re