Russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, who in mid-March broke into the television studio with anti-war placards during a news bulletin, is becoming a correspondent in Ukraine and Russia for the major German newspaper die Welt, the newspaper reported today.
The journalist will write for the newspaper and will contribute regularly to her television news bulletin.
“Marina Ovsyannikova had the courage, at a crucial moment, to bring viewers in Russia face to face with an unadorned picture of reality,” Ulf Posart, Welt Group’s director, said in a statement.
“He thus defended the most important journalistic virtues and did so despite the threat of state repression,” added the head of the conservative newspaper.
“Welt represents exactly what the courageous people in Ukraine are defending so vigorously: freedom. As a journalist, I consider it my duty to defend that freedom,” Obsyannikova, 43, said in a statement.
The Russian journalist appeared in mid-March during a live broadcast of a news bulletin on the Pervy Kanal with a placard criticizing the Moscow military operation in Ukraine and denouncing the “propaganda” of the state-controlled media.
Marina Ovsyanikova was arrested and detained for a short time and then sentenced to a fine and released. He has since left the channel and is facing criminal charges that carry heavy prison sentences, under a recent law punishing any “false information” about the Russian military.
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