The Kremlin’s efforts to shape the telling of events work in counter-intuitive ways. Steven Lee Myers’s The New Tsar makes clear it may be that no amount of critical thinking is sufficient to counter the misleading or misinformed intentions of these sources: not only facts but also frames and basic assumptions must be questioned. But if nothing can be trusted, how can anything be used?

Source: Writing in the Kremlin’s Shadow by Masha Gessen | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books