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Masha Gessen Biography

Masha Gessen is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on January 13, 1967 in Moscow, Russia. Gessen was born to an Jewish family from Moscow with parents Alexander Gessen and Yelena Gessen. Their maternal grandma Ester Goldberg, daughter of socialist mother and Zionist father was born in Bialystok, Poland, in 1923, and moved from Poland to Moscow during 1940. Her father Jakub Goldberg was killed in 1943, possibly at Bialystok Ghetto or a concentration camp. Bialystok Ghetto or at a concentration camp. Ruzya Solodovnik Gessen’s maternal grandmother was a Russian-born scholar who was censor in the Stalinist government until she was dismissed during an antisemitic elimination. The maternal grandparents of Gessen Samuil was a fervent Bolshevik who perished in World War II, leaving Ruzya to care for Yelena on her own.

Gessen got married to Svetlana Generalova Gessen, who was a Russian resident who had been active within her involvement with the LGBT protests in Moscow in 2004. The wedding was held within America. U.S. By the time Gessen returned to the U.S. from Russia in December 2013 They had been married Darya Oreshkina.

In an extensive October 2008 profile of Vladimir Putin for Vanity Fair, Gessen reported that the young Putin had been “an aspiring thug” and that “the backward evolution of Russia began” within days of his inauguration in 2000.

They contributed several dozen commentaries on Russia to The New York Times blog “Latitude” between November 2011 and December 2013. Among their subjects were the banning of so-called “homosexual propaganda” and other related laws; the harassment and beating of journalists, and the depreciation in value of the ruble.

Gessen was a member of the Board of Directors for the Moscow-based LGBT rights group Triangle between 1993 and 1998.

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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In September 2012, Gessen was appointed as director of the Russian Service for Radio Liberty, a U.S. government-funded broadcaster based in Prague. Shortly after their appointment was announced and a few days after Gessen met with Putin, more than 40 members of Radio Liberty’s staff were fired. The station also lost its Russian broadcasting licence several weeks after Gessen took over. The degree of Gessen’s involvement in both of these events is unclear, but has caused controversy.

Masha Gessen Net Worth

Masha Gessen is one of the richest Journalist from Russia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Masha Gessen's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Masha Gessen (born Maria Alexandrovna Gessen (Russian: Mariia Aleksandrovna Gessen , IPA: [ma’rjij@ aljIk’sandr@vn@’gjes@n] ) 13 January 1967) is a Russian-American journalist, author, translator and activist who has been an outspoken critic of the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and the President of the United States, Donald Trump.

In 1981, while Gessen was just a teenager They emigrated with their families to United States. In 1991, when they were adults Gessen and his family relocated to Moscow and began work as an editor. Gessen holds both Russian and US citizenship. The brothers of Gessen include Keith, Daniel and Philip Gessen.

Gessen tested positive for the BRCA mutation that is correlated with breast cancer and underwent a mastectomy in 2005.

Gessen was dismissed from their position as the chief editor of Russia’s oldest magazine, Vokrug sveta, a popular-science journal, in September 2012 after they refused to send a reporter to cover a Russian Geographical Society event about nature conservation featuring President Putin because they considered it political exploitation of environmental concerns. After they tweeted about their firing, Putin phoned them and claimed he was serious about his “nature conservation efforts.” At his invitation, they met him and their former publisher at the Kremlin, and was offered their job back. They rejected the offer.

In December 2013, they moved to New York because Russian authorities had begun to talk about taking children away from gay parents. In March, “the St Petersburg legislator [Milonov] who had become a spokesman for the law [against ‘homosexual propaganda’ towards children] started mentioning me and my ‘perverted family’ in his interviews,” and Gessen contacted an adoption lawyer asking “whether I had reason to worry that social services would go after my family and attempt to remove my oldest son, whom I adopted in 2000.” The lawyer told Gessen “to instruct my son to run if he is approached by strangers and concluding: ‘The answer to your question is at the airport.'” In June 2013, Gessen was beaten up outside of the Parliament; they said of the incident that “I realised that in all my interactions, including professional ones, I no longer felt I was perceived as a journalist first: I am now a person with a pink triangle.” They stated that “a court would easily decide to annul Vova’s adoption, and I wouldn’t even know it.” Given this potential threat to their family, Gessen “felt like no risk was small enough to be acceptable,” they later told the CBC Radio. “So we just had to get out.”

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In The Man Without a Face, Gessen offers an account of Putin’s rise to power and summary of recent Russian politics. The book was published on 1 March 2012 and translated into 20 languages.

Gessen has three children—two sons and a daughter. Their eldest son, Vova, was born in 1997 in Russia and was adopted by Gessen from an orphanage in Kaliningrad for the children of HIV-positive women. Their daughter, Yolka, was born to Gessen in the U.S. in 2001. Their third child, a son, was born in February 2012.

Who is Masha Gessen Dating?

According to our records, Masha Gessen married to Darya Oreshkina. As of December 1, 2023, Masha Gessen’s is not dating anyone.

In March 2013, politician Vitaly Milonov promoted the Russian law against foreign adoption of Russian children by saying: “The Americans want to adopt Russian children and bring them up in perverted families like Masha Gessen’s.”

Facts & Trivia

Masha Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Russia. Masha Gessen celebrates birthday on January 13 of every year.

They wrote in February 2014 that Citibank had closed their bank account because of concern about Russian money-laundering operations.

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