Tuesday 18 October 2022

Russian anti-war journalist flees Russia

 

Russian Journalist - Marina Ovsyannikova

The former Russian state television journalist, Marina Ovsyannikova (44), has fled Russia with her daughter and is now living in Europe. 

She was under house arrest, and placed on a wanted list, after denouncing Putin's invasion of the Ukraine, during a live television broadcast and after carrying out a lone-protest near the Kremlin. She displayed a placard that read: "Putin is a murderer. His soldiers are fascists.

Although Ovsyannikova is said to be under the protection of an unnamed European state, the French President, Emmanuel Macron', had  already offered her asylum and consular protection.

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