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World Service,2 mins
Marina Ovsyannikova: 'Interrogators didn't believe TV protest was my idea'
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During Monday evening's main evening news programme on Russia's state-controlled Channel 1 TV, an editor at the station, Marina Ovsyannikova, was detained after she ran on to the set holding a sign in Russian and English saying "no war". Speaking to the 麻豆社's Caroline Davies, Ovsyannikova explains that her interrogators could not believe the protest was all her own idea and that she needed a break from being a "cog in the Russian propaganda machine". Ovsyannikova was fined and is still under investigation. Photo: Marina Ovsyannikova, the editor at the state broadcaster Channel One who protested against Russian military action in Ukraine speaks to the media as she leaves the Ostankinsky District Court. Credit: Getty Images.
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