Maria Alexandrovna Lipman (; born 1952) is a Russian journalist, political scientist and US—Russia policy expert, who edited the magazine of the

Carnegie Moscow Center The Carnegie Moscow Center () was a Moscow-based think tank that focuses on domestic and foreign policy. It was established in 1994 as a regional affiliate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. It was the number one think tank in Ce ...

until 2014, and who writes for

Foreign Affairs ''Foreign Affairs'' is an American magazine of international relations and U.S. foreign policy published by the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, membership organization and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and ...

and other publications, and who is critical of

Putin Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin; (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who holds the office of president of Russia. Putin has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999: as prime min ...

. She is an expert at the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at

George Washington University , mottoeng = "God is Our Trust" , established = , type = Private federally chartered research university , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $2.8 billion (2022) , preside ...

Early life and career

Lipman was born on 25 October 1952 in Moscow. In 1974 she graduated from the Department of Structural and Applied Linguistics of the . From 1991 to 1995, she worked as a translator, researcher and contributor for ''

The Washington Post ''The Washington Post'' (also known as the ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'') is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area and has a large nati ...

''. Since 2001 she has had a monthly op-ed in ''The Post''. From 1995 to 2001, she was deputy editor-in-chief of the magazine. From 2001 to 2003 she was the deputy editor-in-chief of the . She speaks English and Russian.

Views

Writing in ''

'' 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."

Published works

* * . See also:

Tony Wood (historian) Tony Wood is a British-Mexican political writer on Russia. His 2018 book, ''Russia Without Putin: Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War'', has been described by U.S. Russia policy expert Richard Lourie as a "maverick book," used "not to ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lipman, Maria Living people Russian women journalists Russian political scientists 1952 births The Washington Post people