Maria Alexandrovna[1] Lipman (Russian: Мария Александровна Липман; born 1952) is a Russian journalist,[2] political scientist[3] and Russia expert, who edited the magazine of the Carnegie Moscow Center until 2014.

[2][7] In 1974 she graduated from the Department of Structural and Applied Linguistics of the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University [ru].

[1][7] From 1991 to 1995, she worked as a translator, researcher and contributor for The Washington Post.

[4] As a Distinguished Fellow of Russian Studies, she resided at Indiana University Bloomington for the Spring semester of 2018.

[4] Writing in Foreign Affairs 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.