Maria Lipman | |
|---|---|
| Мария Липман | |
| Born | 25 October 1952 |
| Education | Master of Arts |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | Journalist,political scientist,pundit,expert |
| Employer | |
| Position held | visiting scholar |
Maria Alexandrovna[1]Lipman (Russian:Мария Александровна Липман; born 1952) is a Russian journalist,[2] political scientist[3] and Russia expert, who edited the magazine of theCarnegie Moscow Center until 2014.[4] She is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies atGeorge Washington University and Co-Editor of the Institute's website Russia.Post. She also writes forForeign Affairs.[5][6]
Lipman was born on 25 October 1952 in Moscow.[2][7] In 1974 she graduated from the Department of Structural and Applied Linguistics of theFaculty of Philology of Moscow State University [ru].[1][7] From 1991 to 1995, she worked as a translator, researcher and contributor forThe Washington Post.[4][8][9] Since 2001 she has had a monthly op-ed inThe Post. From 1995 to 2001, she was deputy editor-in-chief of theItogi [ru;de] magazine. From 2001 to 2003 she was the deputy editor-in-chief of theWeekly journal [ru].[4] As a Distinguished Fellow of Russian Studies, she resided atIndiana University Bloomington for the Spring semester of 2018.[10]
She speaks English and Russian.[4]
Writing inForeign Affairs claims, "The crackdown that followed Putin's return to the Kremlin in 2012 extended to the liberal media, which had until then been allowed to operate fairly independently."[11]