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Masha Lipman

Moscow, Russia

Masha Lipman is the editor of the Pro et Contra journal, published by Carnegie Moscow Center. Lipman is also an expert in the Civil Society Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center. She served as deputy editor of the Russian weekly newsmagazines, Ezhenedel’ny zhurnal from 2001 to 2003, and of Itogi magazine from 1995 to 2001. She has worked as a translator, researcher, and contributor forMoscow bureau of The Washington Post and has had a monthly op-ed column in The Washington Post since 2001. Close.

Masha Lipman

Moscow, Russia

Masha Lipman is the editor of the Pro et Contra journal, published by Carnegie Moscow Center. Lipman is also an expert in the Civil Society Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center. more »

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September 10, 2006 3:38 PM

U.S. Human Rights Abuses Embolden Authoritarian Regimes

Moscow, Russia - It is highly unusual for a leader of a great nation to publicly justify torture, but this is pretty much what President Bush did last week. Talking about the interrogation of a terrorist suspect Abu Zubaydah the U.S. president said that after "he stopped talking" he was subjected to an "alternative set of procedures". It's hard to imagine that anybody would be fooled by this euphemism. The U.S. president thus reduces the problem to a hideous simplicity: We needed the information badly, he wouldn't share it, so we tortured him; there was nothing else we could do.

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