MOSCOW, RUSSIA (KNX) — Marina Ovsiannikova took a major risk Monday in Russia, interrupting a television broadcast of the Russian State by running directly behind a news anchor and holding up a poster that read, “Stop the war. Don’t believe propaganda. They’re lying to you here.” Ovsiannikova is an editor at the station, according to The Hill.
Several sources on Twitter have confirmed that Ovsiannikova works for Channel One, one of Russia’s most popular channels.
Following the news of her protest on live television, a video that Ovsiannikova reportedly recorded before the protest surfaced online. The Washington Post translated the video and learned that the journalist apologized for working at the state-controlled news outlet, and felt ashamed for not stepping up sooner.
“I let people lie from TV screens and allowed the Russian people to be zombified,” she said.
“We didn't say anything in 2014 when it only just began. We didn't protest when the Kremlin poisoned Navalny. We just silently watched this inhuman regime. Now the whole world has turned away from us, and ten generations of our descendants won't wash off this fratricidal war.”
Max Seddon, the Moscow bureau chief of the Financial Times, followed the story from the beginning, sharing the video of Ovsiannikova’s protest and asking if anyone knew who she was.
Upon learning that it was the journalist, he shared that a Russian legal defense foundation had already stepped forward to defend her against, “discrediting the Russian armed forces.” He also said that Ovsiannikova had already been detained by police.
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