It was starred by the journalist and producer Marina Ovsyannikova, who decided to appear during a high-rated news program with a banner against the war. But it wasn’t just any banner. Ovsyannikova warned the public: “You are being lied to here. Don’t believe the propaganda.” She then demanded a stop to the war.
It was an act of double gallantry, first against Putin’s savage war against Ukraine and then against another war that Putin has declared to the whole world for years and, in many ways, against his own people: that of daily lies and manipulation. .
In a later interview, the journalist said she had witnessed years of information misrepresentation and assured that she did not regret “at all” what she had done.
His bravery could well cost him his freedom. The authorities interrogated her for hours and imposed a fine on her. Ovsyannikova fears for her freedom and, she says, for her fate as well.
You know that Vladimir Putin’s regime, always prone to repression, has taken a clear turn towards totalitarianism, arresting thousands and thousands of people exercising their elemental right to expression, to free assembly, to protest against the government that (that is to say, in the Russian case) they chose.
