nascarmike Posted March 15, 2022 Share Posted March 15, 2022 (edited) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/14/russian-tv-employee-interrupts-news-broadcast-marina-ovsyannikova Edited March 15, 2022 by nascarmike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member ViperGTS/Z1 Posted March 15, 2022 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted March 15, 2022 Freedom of speech in Russia is like saying we have a fair and balanced media. Bravo to this woman for her bravery. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USA Contributing Member $poorsledder$ Posted March 15, 2022 USA Contributing Member Share Posted March 15, 2022 Think Russia will implement a delay in their broadcasting now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlos Danger Posted March 15, 2022 Share Posted March 15, 2022 15 minutes ago, $poorsledder$ said: Think Russia will implement a delay in their broadcasting now? I am surprised they did not already think of it.....they already shut down all the news outlets that might have been critical. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nascarmike Posted March 15, 2022 Author Share Posted March 15, 2022 Nobody has seen her since. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member ViperGTS/Z1 Posted March 15, 2022 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted March 15, 2022 6 minutes ago, nascarmike said: Nobody has seen her since. i heard she showed up for court Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USA Contributing Member $poorsledder$ Posted March 15, 2022 USA Contributing Member Share Posted March 15, 2022 33 minutes ago, nascarmike said: Nobody has seen her since. Think Vlad had Hillary handle it? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XCR1250 Posted March 15, 2022 Share Posted March 15, 2022 5 hours ago, ViperGTS/Z1 said: i heard she showed up for court She's out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XCR1250 Posted March 15, 2022 Share Posted March 15, 2022 She was reportedly later taken to a police station and, according to a BBC report, was fined 30,000 Russian rubles, or $280. Tass, Russia’s state-run news agency, reported that a preliminary inquiry had been launched into Ovsyannikova’s actions. On Tuesday she appeared in Russian court alongside a lawyer, Anton Gashinsky. A photo circulated online of the pair smiling for the camera, with Ovsyannikova wearing what appeared to be a necklace with yellow and blue — Ukraine’s national colors. Before her on-air protest on Monday, Ovsyannikova posted a video to OVD-Info’s website in which she revealed how she “regrettably” spread “Kremlin propaganda” for years. Explaining that her father is Ukrainian and her mother is Russian, she said: “I worked on Channel One and worked on Kremlin propaganda, I am very ashamed of this right now. Ashamed that I was allowed to tell lies from the television screen. Ashamed that I allowed the zombification of the Russian people. “We were silent in 2014 when this was just beginning. We did not go out to protest when the Kremlin poisoned [opposition leader Alexei] Navalny,” she said. “We are just silently watching this antihuman regime. And now the whole world has turned away from us, and the next 10 generations won’t be able to clean themselves from the shame of this fratricidal war.” Ovsyannikova continued, “What is happening in Ukraine is a crime, and Russia is the aggressor. The responsibility of this aggression lies on the shoulders of only one person: [Russian President] Vladimir Putin. Only we have the power to stop all this madness. Go to the protests. Don’t be afraid of anything. They can’t imprison us all.” Ovsyannikova, seen here in a recording that was made before her protest. (Marina Ovsyannikova/via Reuters) Earlier this month, Putin signed a law that punishes people who promote what the Russian government deems “fake news.” The crackdown, which blocked Facebook and Twitter in Russia, allows anyone who spreads information that is deemed to conflict with the Russian government’s official narrative about the war to be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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