On March 12, 2014, Galina Timchenko, the editor-in-chief of Russian news website Lenta.Ru, received a call from Alexander Mamut, the publication’s principal stockholder. Mamut commended Timchenko for her professional abilities. “You’re a great editor,” he said. He also informed her that she was fired.
Mamut never explained why he made the decision, one that seems especially strange considering that Lenta was showing its best figures since launching in 1999: 85 million page views and 20 million unique users per month. Timchenko’s dismissal might have been connected to the warning that Lenta.ru received that same day from Roskomnadzor, a government organization overseeing …read more
Source: Newsweek
