The Moscow Times, 17 Sept 2012: "Masha Gessen, who was fired as editor of the Vokrug Sveta [Вокруг света] magazine for refusing to cover President Vladimir Putin's hang-gliding stunt with cranes earlier this month, has been appointed head of the Russian service of U.S.-government-funded RFE/Radio Liberty. 'I was offered the candidacy for the director's post of the Russian service of Radio Liberty back in January,' Gessen said on her Facebook page Friday. 'I refused because I had just started my job with Vokrug Sveta and planned to stay there a long time.' This month, she told executives at Radio Liberty, where she had been working as a consultant, that she had left Vokrug Sveta, and they offered her the director's position late Thursday." -- OK, as long as her decisions at Radio Svoboda to cover or not to cover stories are based on sound news judgments and not on anti-Putin sentiments. See also International Herald Tribune, 10 Sept 2012, Masha Gessen.