Russian TV editor Marina Ovsyannikova, who staged an anti-Ukrainian protest on live state media in March, was briefly detained in Moscow on Sunday, her social media posts showed.
“Marina has been detained,” read a message on her Telegram channel, with footage of two police officers leading her towards a white van.
Shortly afterward, Ovsyannikova posted images of herself and two dogs on her Facebook page.
“Went walking the dogs, just walked out of the gate, people in uniform approached me,” she wrote. “Now I am sitting in the Krasnoselsky Ministry of Internal Affairs,” referring to a police station in a Moscow district.
Three hours later, Ovsyannikova said she had been released.
“I am home. It’s okay,” she wrote on her Facebook page. “But now I know it’s always best to bring a suitcase and passport if you go out.”
Ovsyannikova rose to fame in March after breaking into a Russian state TV studio, her then employer, to denounce the war in Ukraine during a live news bulletin.
She was fined after being found guilty of flouting protest laws.
Her brief detention on Sunday followed social media posts on July 15 in which she is seen with a poster calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a murderer and his fascist soldiers.
“How many more children must die before you stop?” read the poster.
The German media outlet Welt hired Ovsyannikova as a correspondent in April. She returned to Russia earlier this month.
Source: CNN Brasil
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