Russian journalist who challenged Putin’s TV censorship fined, released

AGI – a sincere appeal against the conflict, she has a Ukrainian father and a Russian mother. Another Russian call to demonstrate against the “war of brothers” wanted by “one person is Vladimir Putin”: this is the message that Russian journalist Marina Ovsyankova recorded in a video to explain the reasons that prompted her on Monday evening to do so. He stopped the news on Channel One in protest of the invasion of Ukraine.

As it was concluded, the journalist was only fined and then released.

women are She appeared behind the announcer Yekaterina Andreyeva with the signStop the war, don’t believe the propaganda, they are lying to you. In the video relaunched by Ovd-Info, the journalist urged other citizens to protest: “Only we have the strength to stop this madness, do not be afraid, they cannot arrest us all.”

Her lawyer, Anton Gachinsky, who posted a photo on Telegram, said Ovsynnikova is in a Moscow court. The answer to “Organizing an unauthorized public event” must be answered, Administrative fee Which could result in a fine of up to 30,000 rubles (about 200 euros), community service assignment or imprisonment for up to 10 days. Accordingly, the journalist is not accused of the crime of spreading “false information” about the Russian army, which provides for a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison.

The United Nations asked the Russian authorities not to retaliate against them. “We are following up on his case and communicating with the authorities to ask them not to retaliate,” said Ravina Shamdasani, a spokeswoman for the UN human rights office.

Ovsiannikova explained that her brave choice was born in years of guilty silence, emphasizing that she has “worked with Kanal Ono in recent years, I do propaganda for the Kremlin and now I’m so ashamed of it“.” I am ashamed that I allowed lies to come off the television screen, that I allowed the Russian people to become zombies. “We were silent in 2014 when it all began,” he stressed, referring to Crimea, “and not we came down to protest when the Kremlin poisoned Navalny, we watched in silence the inhuman order, and now the whole world has turned away from us.”

Leonid Volkov, who is close to Russian dissident Navalny, said in a tweet on Twitter that he was “ready to pay any fine” to her.

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“We applaud the courage of citizens for peace who have dared to speak out against this Putin’s war despite all the existing restrictions,” a spokesman for the European Union’s External Action Service said. “The most recent example is the Russian TV journalist Marina Ovsianikova who took a brave moral stand and exposed the lies and propaganda of the Kremlin live on a state-controlled television station.”

As a result, Marina was arrested and disappeared. Her lawyers can’t contact her. Stano added that the state apparatus continues to suppress the internal opposition to peace by depriving it of basic rights and freedoms such as the right to opinion and expression. They do not want Putin to destroy their future and the future of their country. That is why we have so far seen more than 14,000 Russian citizens detained out of more than 100 Russians for opposing this immoral and illegal war against Ukraine,” the spokesman noted.

(article updated on 17.29)