Russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, who protested live against Russia's war in Ukraine, has left the country.
“Now she is under the protection of a European state,” her lawyer, Dmitri Zajvátov, announced to the Sota channel, without giving more details about how or when she managed to cross the border or where she is.
The former editor of Pervyi Kanal (Channel 1), who became famous in March by breaking into the news with a poster against the war in Ukraine, had been included in the list of most wanted people in Russia after escaping from her house arrest weeks ago .
It is unknown if her flight has had another collateral effect: a court handed over to her ex-husband on Monday the custody of her daughter, whose whereabouts are currently unknown.
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This is Ovsyannikova's second escape.
The editor left for Germany a few weeks after her prime-time protest, where she was hired by Deutsche Welle, but she returned to Russia in July to get her daughter back.
The journalist was fined for that incident and for posting a video on social media the same day where she criticized the Kremlin's offensive on Ukraine.
During her stay in Russia, she repeated her criticism against the Kremlin and the justice opened another criminal case against her under the new law that seeks "the discrediting of the actions of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine."
The journalist protested on July 15 next to the Kremlin with another poster that assured: "Putin is a murderer and his soldiers, fascists."
The action can cost you up to 10 years in prison.
A Moscow court ordered Ovsyannikova in August to remain under house arrest until October 9, but the editor escaped at the end of September, as she herself reported on October 5, without revealing her whereabouts.
Marina Ovsyannikova, during a trial in Moscow on August 11.
NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA (AFP)
In addition to the protests against the war, the journalist had a pending dispute over the custody of her daughter with her ex-husband, an employee of another Kremlin media outlet.
A Moscow court on Monday withdrew Ovsyannikova's parental rights and decided that the 11-year-old girl "must stay with her father because her mother carries out political activities."
Likewise, she also ruled that she must pay child support for herself and her 17-year-old son in the amount of 17,000 rubles per month for each, just over 550 euros at the current exchange rate, until they reach the age of majority. .
Ovsyannikova had previously assured on her social networks that she would like to go abroad with her daughter, while the minor had declared that he wanted to stay with his father, who asked the justice to veto the departure of his children abroad.
The Prosecutor's Office accuses the journalist of having kidnapped her minor and of preventing her from communicating with her father.
"The happiness of the whole world is not worth a tear on the cheek of an innocent child," the journalist quoted Fedor Dostoevsky in his last publication on Telegram, dated October 5.
"I am being persecuted for telling the truth," she added before citing UN figures for children killed in the Ukraine conflict.
"I am completely innocent and, since our state refuses to comply with its own laws, as of September 30 I have refused to abide by the precautionary measure of house arrest," Ovsyannikova concluded in the last message she published.
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