On March 14, 2022, at the start of the war in Ukraine, an image had gone around the world. It was that of the Russian journalist, Marina Ovsiannikova, who had interrupted the newspaper of the state channel she worked for in holding up an anti-war sign.
After this burst, she will continue her protest actions before being arrested and charged for “public acts aimed at discrediting the mission of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation“.
Marina Ovsiannikova faced ten years in prison. But while she was under house arrest, she fled just before her trial. And hasToday, she is a refugee in France and recounts her escape from Russia: “It was a real ordeal, we spent hours crossing the plowed fields, constantly hiding from border patrol cars, from the headlights of tractors that we passed at one point. It was really very dangerous“Well helped by Reporters Without Borders, Marina Ovsiannikova had to change vehicles seven times before leaving the country.
