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Masha Gessen
Born: 1967
Russian journalist and activist Masha Gessen is among Putin’s fiercest critics and arguably the most famous Russian lesbian alive today.
The author of the books The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin and Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot, she also writes regularly on Russian politics and international LGBT rights for a number of major American publications.
She and her family have lived in the US since 2013, after Gessen was attacked outside the Russian Parliament and fearful that social services would take away her children.
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