Russian journalist who protested war on TV rejects moving to France
Marina Ovsyannikova, the Russian television producer who defiantly condemned Russia’s war on Ukraine during state evening news, said Sunday that she doesn't intend to leave the country because she is “a patriot.”
“I'm very grateful to Mr. Macron for his offer, but I have publicly refused to take political asylum in France because I am a patriot,” she said in discussing an offer made by French President Emmanuel Macron on ABC's “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.”
“I want to live in Russia. My children want to live in Russia. We had a very comfortable life in Russia. And I don't want to immigrate and lose another 10 years of my life to assimilate in some other country.”
Last week, Ovsyannikova disrupted a TV newscast by holding up an anti-war sign behind the woman reading the news. She was subsequently fined 30,000 rubles for "hooliganism" and could face up to 15 years in prison under a recently enacted law forbidding anyone from speaking out against the Russian government's war narrative.
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