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Marina Ovsyannikova
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Marina Ovsyannikova (Russian: Марина Овсянникова; née Tkachuk (Ткачук))[1] is a Russian TV producer who was employed on the Channel One Russia TV channel. In 2022, she interrupted a Russian TV news broadcast to protest the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which made international news headlines.

Early life and career

Ovsyannikova's mother is Russian and her father is Ukrainian.[2] Ovsyannikova graduated from the Kuban State University and later from the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. She worked for the All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company. In 2002, she gave an interview to the Yuga.ru news site.[1]

Anti-war protests

Seconds before the video shot was switched to report.

On 14 March 2022, during a live broadcast related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the evening news program Vremya, which has millions of viewers,[3] she appeared behind the news anchor, Ekaterina Andreeva, carrying a poster stating in a mix of Russian and English:

No War
Остановите войну, не верьте пропаганде, здесь вам врут.
[Stop the war, don't believe the propaganda, here you are being lied to.]
Russians against war

The broadcast was stopped.[4][5][6] The recording of the news program was not available for download, which is uncommon for this TV channel.[4][7][8]

Pre-recorded message

Ovsyannikova also posted a pre-recorded video on Telegram saying she was "ashamed of working for Kremlin propaganda":[5][6][9][10][11][12][13]

"What is happening in Ukraine is a crime. Russia is an aggressor country and the responsibility for this aggression rests on the conscience of only one person. That person is Vladimir Putin. My father is Ukrainian, my mother is Russian, and they've never been enemies. This necklace I'm wearing is a symbol of that fact that Russia must immediately end this fratricidal war and our fraternal peoples will still be able to reconcile. Unfortunately, I've spent the last few years working for Channel One, doing Kremlin propaganda, and I'm very ashamed of this. Ashamed that I allowed lies to be broadcast from TV screens. Ashamed that I allowed others to zombify Russian people. We were silent in 2014 when all this started. We didn't protest when the Kremlin poisoned Navalny. We just silently watched this inhuman regime at work. And now the whole world has turned its back on us. And the next 10 generations won't wash away the stain of this fratricidal war. We Russians are thinking and intelligent people. It's in our power alone to stop all this madness. Go protest. Don't be afraid of anything. They can't lock us all away."[10][13][nb 1]

Ovsyannikova is the first Russian journalist to protest on air, though 20 journalists for RT had previously resigned in protest to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.[3]

Reactions

A man, on the night of March 15, 2022, in front of the Ostankino television center. She is waiting for the detained Marina Ovsyannikova to express her words of support and give her a bouquet of flowers.

Ovsyannikova was detained by the Russian police in accordance with the new law and censorship about what the Russian state claims is a special military operation in Ukraine.[14] Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov condemned the protest as hooliganism.[15]

After the incident, the clip was widely posted on social media, including Facebook, Telegram and Twitter, and attracted substantial global media coverage.

On 15 March, president Zelenskyy of Ukraine thanked her during one of his broadcasts.[16] U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders praised Ovsyannikova, saying she displayed incredible courage.[3][17]

Aftermath

Ovsyannikova was arrested and taken to Moscow's Ostankino Police station.[6] Her lawyer has not been able to contact or even locate her for more than 12 hours. The morning after the broadcast, her whereabouts were still unknown.[15]

On the morning of March 15, a post was made from a Twitter account using her name saying that she did not regret anything and that she was under house arrest; furthermore, the post said "I need your endorsement though. #StopTheWar"; the Twitter account had been deleted by noon.[18][19]

Personal life

Ovsyannikova lives in New Moscow [ru; he; uk] with her two children.[13][20][21] She was married to a television director for RT.[21][22]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Ovsyannikova refers to her parents as well as to her necklace in the colors of the Russian and Ukrainian flags to symbolize that Ukrainians and Russians are not enemies and to urge Russia to stop the fratricidal war.

References

  1. ^ a b Зырянов, Никита (14 March 2022). "Журналистка и выпускница КубГУ вышла с пацифистским плакатом во время прямого эфира новостей на Первом канале" [A journalist and graduate of KubSU came out with a pacifist poster during a live news broadcast on Channel One]. Yuga.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  2. ^ https://www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/i/g6Gpqq/kuppet-russisk-tv-sending-med-antikrig-budskap. Verdens Gang
  3. ^ a b c Rose, David (15 March 2022). "Marina Ovsyannikova: Fears for Russian journalist who denounced lies live on TV". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
  4. ^ a b Sauer, Pjotr (14 March 2022). "'They're lying to you': Russian TV employee interrupts news broadcast". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 15 March 2022. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  5. ^ a b Ilyushina, Mary; Knowles, Hannah (15 March 2022). "Employee bursts onto live Russian state TV to denounce war: 'They are lying to you here'". The Washington Post. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
  6. ^ a b c Troianovski, Anton (14 March 2022). "A protester storms a live broadcast on Russia's most-watched news show, yelling, 'Stop the war!'". The New York Times. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
  7. ^ "Редактор Первого канала Марина Овсянникова ворвалась в прямой эфир Первого канала с плакатом «Остановите войну, вам здесь врут»" [The editor of Channel One, Marina Ovsyannikova, broke into the live broadcast with a poster “Stop the war, they are lying to you here"]. The Insider (in Russian). 14 March 2022.
  8. ^ "Russian state TV editor interrupts live news broadcast with anti-war message". Meduza. 14 March 2022.
  9. ^ Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 14 March 2022 ("I'm ashamed I allowed lies to be spoken from the TV screen. Now ten generations of our descendants won't wash off the disgrace of this fratricidal war. We're Russian people, thinking, intelligent. It's only in our power to stop this insanity,")
  10. ^ a b "Ukraine: As It's Happening". The Moscow Times. 14 March 2022. Retrieved 14 March 2022. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= requires |archive-url= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. ^ "Russian Woman Interrupts Live State News Broadcast To Send Message to Putin". Newsweek. 14 March 2022.
  12. ^ "Anti-war protester in studio disrupts live Russian state TV news". Reuters. 14 March 2022.
  13. ^ a b c Марина Овсянникова, сотрудница "Первого канала", в эфире программы "Время" появилась с антивоенным плакатом [Marina Ovsyannikova, an employee of Channel One, appeared on the air of the Vremya program with an anti-war poster]. В мире (In the world). newsru.co.il (in Russian). новости Израиля (Israel News). 15 March 2022 [2022-03-14]. Archived from the original on 15 March 2022. Retrieved 15 March 2022. То, что сейчас происходит на Украине - это преступление. И Россия - страна-агрессор. И ответственность за это преступление лежит только на совести одного человека. И этот человек - Владимир Путин. Мой отец - украинец, моя мать - русская. И они никогда не были врагами. И это ожерелье на моей шее […] - символ того, что Россия должна немедленно остановить братоубийственную войну и наши братские народы еще смогут примириться. К сожалению, последние годы я работала на Первом канале, занимаясь кремлевской пропагандой, и мне сейчас очень стыдно за это. Стыдно за то, что позволяла говорить ложь с экрана телевизора. Стыдно за то, что позволяла зомбировать русских людей. Мы промолчали в 2014 году, когда все это только начиналось. Мы не вышли на митинги, когда Кремль отравил Навального. Мы просто безмолвно наблюдали за этим античеловеческим режимом. И сейчас от нас отвернулся весь мир. И еще десять поколений наших потомков не отмоются от позора этой братоубийственной войны. Мы, русские люди - думающие и умные. Только в наших силах остановить это безумие. Выходите на митинги, ничего не бойтесь, они не могут пересажать нас всех.
  14. ^ Russia outlaws spreading ‘fake news’ about the Russian military with fines and prison Poynter. Accessed 15 March 2022
  15. ^ a b Bowman, Verity (15 March 2022). "Missing for 12 hours: the Russian TV presenter Marina Ovsyannikova who said no to war". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 15 March 2022. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
  16. ^ "Zelenskyj med beskjed til russiske soldater: − Jeg vet at du vil leve" [Zelensky with a message to Russian soldiers: − I know you want to live]. Verdens Gang. 15 March 2022. Retrieved 15 March 2022.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  17. ^ Patterson, Charmaine (15 March 2022). "Russian TV Channel Editor Marina Ovsyannikova Interrupts Live Broadcast with Sign Reading 'No War'". People (magazine). Retrieved 15 March 2022.
  18. ^ "Redaktør braut inn i direktesending på statleg russisk TV". NRK. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
  19. ^ Davies, Rachael (15 March 2022). "Russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikova: Why was the Russian journalist arrest and what was the Russian news protest?". The Scotsman. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
  20. ^ "Адвокаты не могут найти редактора программы «Время», которая ворвалась в эфир с антивоенным плакатом" [Lawyers cannot find the editor of the Vremya program, who broke into the broadcast with an anti-war poster]. news.israelinfo.co.il (in Russian). 15 March 2022. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
  21. ^ a b ""Don't be jealous!" Social networks assessed the act of Marina Ovsyannikova differently". Novye Izvestia. 15 March 2022. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
  22. ^ Соснина, Мария; Гандрабура, Юрий (14 March 2022). "Муж женщины, выбежавшей с плакатом во время эфира на Первом канале, работает на Russia Today" [The husband of the woman who ran out with a poster during the broadcast on Channel One works for Russia Today]. 93.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 15 March 2022.
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