Russian TV worker who protested war live on air briefly detained

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

July 17, 2022
8:44 PM EDT
Last Updated 5 hours ago

Russian TV worker who protested war live on air briefly detained

July 17 (Reuters) - Russian media worker Marina Ovsyannikova, who staged a protest against the invasion of Ukraine on live state television in March, was briefly detained in Moscow on Sunday, posts on her social media channels showed.

"Marina has been detained," a post on her Telegram channel said, beneath images of two police officers leading her towards a white van.

Shortly after, Ovsyannikova posted images of herself and two dogs on her Facebook page.

"Went for a walk with the dogs, just stepped outside the gate, people in uniform approached me," she wrote. "Now I'm sitting in Krasnoselsky ministry of internal affairs," referring to a police station in a Moscow district.

Three hours later, Ovsyannikova said she had been released. ...

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-tv-worker-who-protested-war-live-air-briefly-detained-2022-07-18/

[The Unmitigated Gall]

1. Wait...I thought she had crossed into Finland

And was broadcasting from there, or Germany.

Get out, Marina. They’re just getting started.

Nope, there it is…she returned. Probably couldn’t get husband and children out.

Fuck you, Pootler.