October 3, 2022
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Russian television journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, who became famous for her aired protest against the war in Ukraine, was included by Russian authorities on a wanted list, as she is believed to have escaped the house arrest imposed on her, BTA reports. .
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–Ovsyannikova, 44, was placed under house arrest for two months in August and could face up to 10 years in prison if found guilty of spreading false news about the Russian military. The case is linked to a protest in July when she stood on the river bank in front of the Kremlin and displayed a sign saying that President Vladimir Putin was a murderer and that his soldiers were fascists.
On Saturday, Russian media RT reported that Ovsyannikova was missing. “Last night, my ex-wife left the place where the court ordered her to be kept under house arrest and, together with my 11-year-old daughter, she ran away in an unknown direction,” Ovsyannikova’s ex-husband said.
Her photo and name appeared today in an online list of fugitives published by the Russian Interior Ministry. On March 4, eight days after Russian forces invaded Ukraine, Russia passed a law against the dissemination of information that discredits the military.
Ovsyannikova, born in Ukraine, gained international notoriety in March when she appeared in front of cameras in a television studio on the evening news of the Russian First Channel with a sign saying “Stop the war” and “They are lying to you,” Reuters recalled. . She had already been fined for two other anti-war protests.
