[HIGHLIGHTS] Sentenced in Russia, the new life in France of Marina Ovsiannikova, the “journalist with the sign”

Marina Ovsiannikova was sentenced to two years in prison in Russia. She was sentenced after she held a sign criticizing the war in Ukraine.

Ovsannikova is now living in exile in France. She says she was under the influence of emotion when she made the sign. The “special operation’ decreed by Putin only began three weeks ago. The journalist is now separated from part of her family. She is now a political refugee in France and lives in exile.