When Marina Ovsyannikova broke into a live broadcast of the main Russian news on March 14 to protest Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, it was a brave moment that quickly resonated around the world. The reporter and editor spent six seconds looking at a banner reading “No to war, they lie” on the Kremlin-controlled TV channel she worked on.
A brief act of disobedience cost him 14 hours of interrogation and detention without legal assistance. But his protest against Russian propaganda during the country’s invasion of Ukraine had a useful result: the incident was seen by more than 250 million people around the world, making him a global symbol of freedom. of speech. Born in Odessa before Ukraine became an independent state, Ovsyannikova describes herself as a patriot who made the “spontaneous” decision to fight a war that Russia did not have the right to start.
It is unclear whether he will be able to take further action by the Kremlin, which has described his behavior as “hooliganism”, but the reporter has no regrets and has even rejected France’s offer of political asylum, choosing to cover it from Russia.
The mother of two children is loudly speaking against Putin, against him, the war and Russian propaganda, which, he says, allows the “zombification” of the Russian people. Speaking to the faces of democracy, you said: “Democracy means living as a free man, yet my homeland, Russia, has just become a totalitarian state, increasingly isolated from the outside world.”
Ovsyannikova recently joined the German newspaper Die Welt as a freelance correspondent, where she will cover the newspaper and its TV channel from Russia.
Source: Deadline
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