Masha Gessen
Journalist Fired for Refusing to Cover Putin’s Flight with Endangered Cranes
Not every journalist in Russia was happy to cover Vladimir Putin’s escapade when he led cranes across the Arctic in a motorized hang-glider. Masha Gessen tells host Lisa Mullins why she refused to cover the event, and as a result lost her job.
Masha Gessen on Vladimir Putin, ‘The Man Without a Face’
Vladimir Putin has been called the accidental president. Putin, Russia’s current prime minister, is in the midst of campaigning for his third presidential term, but his name was hardly known until 1999, when then-President Boris Yeltsin plucked the former KGB officer from obscurity and thrust him into the Russian spotlight. Russian voters will decide Putin’s […]