The journalist who made an anti-war protest on Russian TV was released after a few hours of detention

The Russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, who became famous after her protest – on live television – against the invasion of Ukraine, was brought to a Moscow police station yesterday, as was known by her entourage and her lawyer.

“Marina was arrested. There is no information about her whereabouts,” said the message posted by people from her environment on the journalist’s personal Telegram account. The message was accompanied by three photos in which the 44-year-old journalist can be seen being led into a white van by two police officers.

Moments later, Ovsyannikova posted photos of herself and her two dogs on her Facebook page, writing, “I went for a walk with the dogs, as soon as I left the house they approached me in uniform,” and added that she was taken to a police station in her Krasnoselsky district. Moscow.

After three hours, Ovsianikova announced that she was released: “I am at home. Everything is fine,” she wrote on her Facebook page. “Now I know it’s better to take a suitcase and passport with you when you go out,” he added.

Marina Ovsyannikova became world famous in mid-March when she appeared on Russian television’s evening news with a sign that had anti-war slogans. She was arrested and after a short detention, she was released after being fined.

On Friday, Marina Ovsyannikova posted images on Telegram of herself holding a sign near the Kremlin referring to the deaths of children in Ukraine and calling Putin a “murderer.” “How many more children have to die before you stop?” she wrote in her message. Such reports could theoretically expose her to criminal charges for publishing “false information” and “slandering” the Russian military, facing heavy prison terms.

The German newspaper Die Welt hired Ovsianikova in April as a correspondent in Russia, where she returned earlier this month.

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