>> welcome to journalism under autocracy. that's the problem, you can never -- journalists, and we don't realize it until we lose it -- rely on working institutions of state to actually get the truth. you need an independent judiciary, you need intelligence agencies doing their job, you need law enforcement doing their job. once they start to become subsumed by either, you know, controversy or, as happened in russia, you know, being absorbed into the executive branch, you no longer have that. so you're constantly trying to find the truth in a sort of squishy reality. >> masha gessen, thanks fo...