Vladimir Putin’s biggest critic talks about exile, conspiracy theories and the uncomfortable truth about the Tsarnaev brothers and their ‘radicalisation’
Masha Gessen is the first journalist to fully lay bare contemporary Russia, “a country where political rivals and vocal critics are often killed, and at least sometimes the order comes directly from the president’s office”. Gessen wrote these words in The Man Without a Face, her 2012 book about Vladimir Putin’s rise to power, which she worked on in secret for fear of retaliation. A remarkably prolific author, publishing at a rate of about a book a year, she’s already well into a second book about Putin, she says, which focuses on the last three years of his regime.
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