Masha Gessen

Wahat al-Salam/Neve Shalom was founded on a total belief in the power of dialogue. Masha Gessen writes about the community in the aftermath of the Hamas attack and amid Israel’s war in Gaza.

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.