The night news broadcast on the primary Russian news channel, Channel 1 is seen on a laptop computer as it is disrupted by a female objecting the war in Ukraine in this illustration image on 15 March, 2022 in Warsaw,Poland Marina Ovsyannikova, a staff member of the network ran onto the phase with an indication reading ‘No War’ and ‘They’re lying to you here’.
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An anti-war protester disrupted a live news flash on Russia’s state television Channel One on Monday, holding up an indication behind the studio speaker and screaming mottos knocking the war in Ukraine.
The indication, in English and Russian, read: “NO WAR. Stop the war. Don’t believe propaganda. They are lying to you here.” Another expression, which appeared like “Russians against war,” was partially obscured.
The remarkable act of dissent happened on day 19 of the war which started when Russia got into Ukraine onFeb 24 in what it calls an unique military operation.
“Stop the war. No to war,” the female protester might be heard screaming, as the news anchor continued to check out from her teleprompter.
The protester might be seen and heard for a number of seconds prior to the channel changed to a various report to eliminate her from the screen.
“Wow, that girl is cool,” Kira Yarmysh, spokesperson for imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny, composed on Twitter.
She published a video of the event, which rapidly acquired more than 2.6 million views.
A lady who states to be the worker of Russia’s state television Channel One, Marina Ovsyannikova, speaks in a declaration tape-recorded prior to holding up an anti-war indication survive on air, in this still get drawn from a video published March 14, 2022.
Marina Ovsyannikova by means of Reuters
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State television is the primary source of news for numerous countless Russians, and carefully follows the Kremlin line that Russia was required to act in Ukraine to demilitarize and “denazify” the nation, and to protect Russian- speakers there versus”genocide” Ukraine and the majority of the world have actually condemned that as an incorrect pretext for an intrusion of a democratic nation.
The female was called by OVD-Info, an independent protest-monitoring group, and by the head of the Agora human rights group, as Marina Ovsyannikova, a staff member of the channel.
Pavel Chikov, head of Agora, stated she had actually been apprehended and required to a Moscow police headquarters. Tass news company stated she might deal with charges under a law versus discrediting the militaries, mentioning a police source.
The law, handed down March 4, reveals actions targeted at discrediting Russia’s army prohibited and prohibits the spread of phony news or the “public dissemination of deliberately false information about the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.” The offense brings a prison regard to as much as 15 years.
In a video tape-recorded prior to the event and published online, a female who seemed Ovsyannikova explained herself as a Channel One worker and stated she repented to have actually worked for years spreading out Kremlin propaganda. She stated her dad was Ukrainian, and her mom Russian.
“What is happening now in Ukraine is a crime, and Russia is the aggressor country. The responsibility for that aggression lies on the conscience of only one man, and that man is Vladimir Putin,” she stated.
“Now the whole world has turned away from us and the next 10 generations of our descendants will not wash away the shame of this fratricidal war,” she stated.
She prompted Russians to head out and show.
Authorities have actually separated anti-war demonstrations. According to OVD-Info, which keeps an eye on demonstrations and offers legal help to those apprehended, an overall of 14,911 individuals have actually been apprehended.
