Masha Hessen quit "Radio Liberty"

Masha Hessen resigned from the post of head of the Russian Radio Liberty service of her own free will. This is stated in the press release of the radio station. Earlier, Gleb Morev, the editor of the CoLTA.RU portal, reported on the dismissal of the State Headquarters on his Twitter. Hesse decided to leave her post to write a book about Pussy Riot.

According to the newspaper "Top Secret", Irina Lagunina was appointed the new editor of Radio Liberty, and Ruslan Gelishanov was appointed administrative director. Gelishanov was previously deputy director of the Russian service in Prague, and Lagunina worked in the Prague editorial office.

Hessen headed the Russian Radio Liberty service since October 2012. Then Lyudmila Telen, the editor of the radio station, said on her page on Facebook that "the first action of Hesse to" Radio Liberty "was the dismissal of the entire Internet edit in full force and without announcing the war." “I can congratulate Masha Hesse with an excellent career start. Beautiful start,” Telion wrote. Later a number of other employees were also dismissed. In addition, the concept of the project has radically changed - from November 10, the radio station stopped broadcasting on the air.

On October 9, a single pickets of former employees, as well as audience of a radio station against Hessen politics, had a single pickets in Moscow. "The broadcasting of Radio Liberty on the Middle Waves should not stop on November 10! All dismissed employees of the Moscow Bureau must be hired again!" - said in the circulation of the picketers.

On December 25, the root was removed from office for a number of serious miscalculations. "At the person’s post, the number one in the RS/RSA Steven Korn caused a tremendous disappointment. He made egregious mistakes, worked nightmarely with the footage and brought to a completely collapse the Moscow office," said BBG member Victor Ash. Earlier in December, the head of the American non -governmental organization Freedom House David Kramer said that Korn had made more bad for Radio Liberty than Putin could do.

On January 17, a clouz was appointed interim president of the RS/RSS. On January 26, he began to work. In 1994-1997, Close was already president of the radio station. Before that, he headed the Moscow Bureau The Washington Post. In the coming months, BBG will determine the candidate of the permanent president of the RS/RSA.