Maria (Masha) LIpMANis the editor-in-chief of Pro et Contra, a policy journal published by the Carnegie Moscow Center. Before joining Carnegie Moscow Center in 2003, Ms. Lipman was co-founder and deputy editor of two Russian weekly news magazines. From 2001 till 2011, she wrote an op-ed column on Russian politics, media, and society for The Washington Post. Since 2012, she has written a monthly blog for The New Yorker online. Ms. Lipman authored the chapter on the Russian Media and Politics in the volume Putin’s Russia and co-edited several books, such as Russia 2020: Scenarios for the Future, both in English and in Russian, as well as The Convolutions of Historical Politics, Istoricheskaya politika v 21 veke, and Russia 2025. Ms. Lipman is a frequent speaker on the international conference circuit and has regularly featured as a Russia expert on a range of international broadcast media.