To protect herself and guarantee the safety of her daughter, Marina Ovsiannikova now keeps her address secret and arranges to meet in a Parisian café.
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It is not easy to emigrate, I would never have done it if I was not the subject of criminal proceedings,”
she said in the preamble.
On March 14, 2022, less than a month after the start of the war in Ukraine, this journalist made herself known to the whole world by brandishing a sign opposing the war in Ukraine behind the channel's television news presenter Pervi Kanal.
Placed under house arrest while awaiting her trial, the journalist ended up cutting her electronic bracelet to flee to France with her twelve-year-old daughter, leaving Russia behind.
Two years after this coup, from Paris, this daughter of a Ukrainian father and a Russian mother tells how her daily life as a journalist has suffered from the rise of authoritarianism since the beginning of the 2010s.
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