To make “the truth known,” she was prepared to spend one or two years behind bars.
But she had not imagined that the situation would turn into a nightmare.
That she would live in exile, become a political refugee, be separated from part of her family.
On March 14, 2022, Marina Ovsiannikova brandished a sign in English and Russian criticizing the offensive in Ukraine, in the middle of the television news on Pervy Kanal, the most watched channel in Russia: “No to war.
Don't believe the propaganda.
Russians against the war.
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The “special operation” decreed by Putin only began three weeks ago.
It was a gesture “under the influence of emotion”, recognizes today the journalist whom acquaintances readily describe as “impulsive”.
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