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Her role in firing staff of Radio Liberty Moscow bureau

I think we should include info that she fired the entire staff of the Radio Liberty Moscow bureau [1] soon after meeting with Putin, although she denies her role [2]... My very best wishes (talk) 02:18, 3 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Now, according to this publication (and also this, summarized (here (Russian)), the current director of Radio station just left his job because she literally "destroyed" the Moscow bureau of RL. My very best wishes (talk) 02:54, 3 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
So, this tells about Stev Korn who just resigned: "He also fired some of the best independent journalists in Russia so that Masha Gessen, his disastrous choice to run the Russian Service, could bring in her own team of far less qualified associates." My very best wishes (talk) 03:37, 3 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]


Another publication: "Masha Gessen Expertly Ruined Washington’s Propaganda Horn: President of Radio Liberty Dismissed" – (Moskovskie Vedomosti, Dec. 25, 2012)[3], but that one is definitely biased. My very best wishes (talk) 03:55, 3 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Opinion by Alexander Goldfarb, "Around the World", Letter to Korn in April 2012 (compare to this). New "Svoboda". My very best wishes (talk) 19:04, 3 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Additional source

Personal Life

The existing section says both that she has two children and that she has three children. Which is it? MaxwellPerkins (talk) 05:25, 22 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Completely biased article, needs a re-write

She's a member of the "democratic opposition" despite the Putin "regime" winning elections that were deemed fair by the OSCE...Am I the only one who winced at all of this gratuitously biased language? Solntsa90 (talk) 01:10, 28 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Such language is hardly encyclopedic, especially when it fails to be factual. Solntsa90 (talk)


indeed she is a nasty pos! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:A:4D80:7CA:459E:7272:F2F7:1194 (talk) 07:56, 17 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  • Well, the term "democratic opposition" no longer appears in the article and calling her a nasty piece of shit hardly constitutes a legitimate objection. Based on this, I'm removing the neutrality tag. Please offer a more detailed rationale should you choose to restore it. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:43, 9 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have sources? --Harizotoh9 (talk) 20:49, 9 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sources for what? Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:53, 9 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Don't bother. She's a zionist therefore any criticism of her is anti semitic and will be removed by the consensus of the neutral and zionist mods.86.137.75.216 (talk) 02:51, 17 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
What sort of criticism has been removed? AdventurousSquirrel (talk) 01:47, 9 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Removed source

I have removed a patently unreliable source from this article; Breitbart is not useful as a source for contentious or negative claims about living people. We're not going to use a highly-opinionated, viciously-slanted Breitbart smearjob as a reliable source for the biography of someone they clearly politically oppose. Do not reinsert unreliable sources. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 11:17, 11 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, @Knope7: I agree about not using the mentioned source, as it's a far right-wing site which makes personal attacks with particularly sensationalised and sinister tone. The info in the 'Personal life' section is factual, as Gessen herself talks openly about her 3 children in the attached clip on that page. Nothing sensational or controversial about it at all, as the child was born to her partner, Oreshkina. Unfortunately and quite ironically, that execrable site seems to the only current source where the info is available on. I'm leaving the info itself with the option to source it when a neutral WP:RS is made available. TonyIsTheWoman (talk) 11:44, 12 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the explanation, {ping|TonyisTheWoman}}. I removed the information out of caution for a BLP, especially since Gessen has been a very vocal critic of two governments. I'm fine leaving it if it is something Gessen has talked about, although I think we should clarify further so that readers do not think Gessen is being accused of incest. Knope7 (talk) 16:03, 12 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I'm open to any suggestions of rephrasing / elaborating. I do feel that it's quite clear that Oreshkina and Gessen's brother are the biological parents of the child and it leaves no room for further interpretations. TonyIsTheWoman (talk) 17:37, 12 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Photo for infobox

The Wikimedia Commons category c:Category:Masha Gessen at present holds two photos: one from 2011 and the one in the infobox now, from 2015. An objection was raised on the WP Humanities reference desk regarding the subject's "miserable" appearance in the 2015 photo. My solution is to add The earlier photo already appears lower on the page; both are dated. I suggest it's not adequately justifiable to swap the photos having the earlier one in the infobox due to a subjective assessment of "appearance".-- Deborahjay (talk) 15:37, 8 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of Interest

Recent edit summaries from an editor using an IP address say that the editor is Gessen's daughter. I reverted the edits but I figure it is worth a discussion. Knope7 (talk) 02:43, 20 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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