They arrest the Russian journalist who interrupted a news program with anti-war proclamations – El Periódico Mediterráneo

Russian journalist Marina Ovsyánnikova, who interrupted Russian public television’s main news program with anti-war proclamations last March, was detained near her home on Sunday, her lawyers reported on her Telegram account. “Marina has been arrested. We do not know her location,” they wrote below some photographs in which two police officers are seen taking the journalist away in a white van. One of her lawyers, Dmitri Zajvatov, confirmed to the official Russian agency RIA Nóvosti the arrest of Ovsyánnikova. “I guess it has something to do with their protest” last Friday on a bridge near the Kremlin walls with a banner and two dolls with red paint on their faces and clothes on the ground, according to a video posted that day on his Telegram channel. On the banner the journalist had written that Russian President Vladimir “Putin is a murderer, his fascist soldiers. 352 children have died. How many more have to die for you to stop? (the war intervention in Ukraine). Ovsyánnikova, editor of Channel 1, interrupted the live broadcast of the nightly news (Vremia) on March 14 by making proclamations and brandishing a poster against the Russian military offensive in Ukraine: “No to war. End the war. Don’t believe the propaganda. Here they are lying to you. Russians against the war”, read the poster. The Russian Justice found the journalist guilty for organizing or holding a public event without notification and imposed a fine of 30,000 rubles (277 dollars). Later she became a contributor to the German newspaper ‘Die Welt’, a job he left at the beginning of July, according to the independent portal in Russian Meduza.