Marina Ovsyannikova says she has refused an asylum offer in France despite potentially facing further prosecution.

Russia’s Channel One editor Marina Ovsyannikova says she has quit her job but refused to accept an asylum offer in France after publicly challenging the Kremlin’s narrative about the war in Ukraine on live TV.



_{Marina Ovsyannikova has been fined for 30,000 roubles ($290) for breaching protest laws in Moscow [AFP]}


Ovsyannikova was detained and rapidly fined 30,000 roubles ($290) for barging onto the set of flagship Vremya (Time) evening news on Monday holding a poster reading “No War” and “They are lying to you here”.

Speaking to France 24, the editor said she had “handed in all the documents” for her resignation from Channel One. “It’s a legal procedure,” she said.

Ovsyannikova, who has two young children, said she had “broken the life of our family with this gesture”, with her son in particular showing anxiety.

“But we need to put an end to this fratricidal war so this madness does not turn into nuclear war. I hope when my son is older he will understand why I did this,” she said.

She added some of her colleagues had resigned but many were unable to do so due to economic concerns.

She added some of her colleagues had resigned but many were unable to do so due to economic concerns.

“I am happy that people handed in their notice, but the economic situation is very hard and people find it very hard to stop their work,” she said.



_{Marina Ovsyannikova holds up a sign that reads “NO WAR. Stop the war. Don’t believe propaganda. They are lying to you here.” [Channel One/Reuters]}


In a separate interview with Germany’s Der Spiegel, Ovsyannikova said she would not take up an asylum offer put forward by France’s President Emmanuel Macron and would stay in Russia.

“I don’t want to leave our country. I am a patriot, my son is even more so. We don’t want to leave in any way, we don’t want to go anywhere,” she said.

Despite having been freed, she could face further prosecution, risking years in prison under draconian new laws approved on March 4 that limit freedom of speech about the war in Ukraine.

Press freedom activists outside Russia accuse state television of painting a severely distorted picture of the war in a bid to maintain support for what the Kremlin calls a “special military operation”.

Ovsyannikova told the German daily that most of her colleagues were aware of their role in spreading misinformation.

“They know only too well that they are doing something wrong,” she said.

State television, the main source of news for many Russians, closely follows the Kremlin line that Russia was forced to act in Ukraine to demilitarise and “denazify” the country, and to defend Russian speakers there against “genocide”.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has expressed gratitude “to those who fight disinformation and tell the truth”.

“And personally to the woman who entered the studio of Channel One with a poster against the war,” Zelenskyy said.

Source: Aljazeera News

All ye..stand up against Putin and challenge him.. bring him down to his feet..
Putin is actually the master of propaganda..he will never let you voice out...and if you do you either get silenced forever or get thrown in the dungeon..

I am glad she stood up and question him..she is brave and strong..why deceive Russians with fake narrative about the issue on ground..look at the rally he held just the way Hitler did his own with the Nazi symbol.. deceiving the people to make you look like the cool guy..
I won't be surprised if this woman get hit in days or month to come.. Putin operate like a snake in the green grass..a danger to humanity..

Putin controls literally everything ....
there are many Russians (probably the majority) who want real freedom.. but if they speak out they end up in prison or worse...
So bad..

FERNANDEZISBACK:
All ye..stand up against Putin and challenge him.. bring him down to his feet..
Putin is actually the master of propaganda..he will never let you voice out...and if you do you either get silenced forever or get thrown in the dungeon..

I am glad she stood up and question him..she is brave and strong..why deceive Russians with fake narrative about the issue on ground..look at the rally he held just the way Hitler did his own with the Nazi symbol.. deceiving the people to make you look like the cool guy..
I won't be surprised if this woman get hit in days or month to come.. Putin operate like a snake in the green grass..a danger to humanity..

I pray nothing happens to her

Me as an EFULEFU (Ediot in igbo), I will praise PUTIN for not taking SHIT from ameReeca & Other western Vampires.


The man Is Strong, The man is praiseworthy.

All hail MOTHER RUSSIA...

North Korea - China - Nigeria are in support of putin.

Japan Is ready to take down AmeReeca as revenge to FatMan,.

Love you all... I hate war .... I love Peace.

STOP THE WAR

Now this is an example of a true activist, not the sowore activist type wey wan become president at all cost thereby fighting all manner of fights (both relevant and irrelevant fights).

The men in russia should be ashamed of themselves. See what a woman did, and yet i saw a video of one fat guy chaining himself to mac donalds restaurant saying they must not leave. He can’t afford not to eat his daily pizza. Na pizza dey hungry d fat fool when human lives are being lost on per seconds thingz in ukraine ��.

Kudos to the brave young lady. Dem even off her asylum, she refused.

Dj switch, b4 dem offer her asylum, she don even dey d embassy dey find way to japa.

Naija activists, make una come learn.

Everything shouldn’t be for the gram or camera

One of the those jobless Nairaland Putin supporters will be offered her job.
Another western propaganda.

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Totilopussylick:
I pray nothing happens to her

She will be fine in Moscow as long as she stay quiet

brave woman, for those praising Putin, this what will happen when China and Russia takes over, no freedom of speech ,I laugh when idiots here Especially head slammers praise them , you think China and Russia will be any better?

X

Economic hardship everywhere

Putin we know, Putin we support

Even a dead Putin is better than a living Buhari

No need for too much explanation

Wahala nor dey finish.




They should leave us to face our own troublems

Brave woman not the empty brains we have here

Good.. This are What we called real women.. She will be a voice.. And her action will lead and inspire others to rebel against the mad man Putin and his war machine...

Kpo ife ojo.... ife ojo


Three gbosaaa

Nice choice she just prove she is not an opportunist this show how determine she is and committed I know France we be shock too

Don't worry mumu Putin go soon sabi be say war dey very expensive.

He has just made the greatest mistake of his life

What?

While dissenting opinion is encouraged, one should be mindful not to be a pawn in the hands of your country's enemies.

She claims that an end should be put to the "fraticidal war" but I don't recall her ever saying anything about the "fraticidal genocide" conducted by Ukranian nationalists in the Donbass.

She further claims that she and her "colleagues" were aware that their jobs is to spread propaganda. This is where my suspicion was piqued. By and large, she could have resigned at anytime from the station if she felt its editorial opinions differed from hers. Why stay there for many years as a junior editor, earn salaries and then use a convenient excuse to gain clout and the attention of the Western media?

Somebody else will take her job and life will go on. Whoever is also pushing her to do this will also one day decide that she is longer useful and move on.

Who remembers Navalny these day??

This shows that Russia is not strict.

They go soon give you poison drink...no comot

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30,000 of Russian currency = $290 ‽

ok oo

Russia is seriously loosing this war. The advisers that advised Putin to evade Ukraine need to face firing squad

Totilopussylick:
I pray nothing happens to her

Exactly.. thanks for your fake concern..

The stubborn he-goat Putin is driving Russia into a bottomless pit they may not get out of. I feel pity for the Russian People

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