It was a jaw-dropping moment when for a few seconds a young woman interrupted a live news broadcast on Russian state media to wave a sign that said: “Stop the war. Don’t believe propaganda. They’re lying to you.”
Bloomberg reports what made the instance so noteworthy is the lengths to which Vladimir Putin has gone after his invasion of Ukraine to cut Russians off from sources of independent information and social media, including Facebook and Twitter.
The blond woman, dressed soberly in a black suit, had only a few seconds to make her point behind a robotic-sounding anchor reading the TelePrompter. Soon enough, First Channel cut to a generic scene in a hospital.
Marina Ovsyannikova, the woman who protested Russian disinfo and the war on Ukraine live on Russian state TV has been arrested. This act of BRAVERY needs to be seen by all. pic.twitter.com/JBOJ4u3b6o
— VoteVets (@votevets) March 14, 2022
Russian police detained the protester, according to Tass news service. OVD-Info, a legal defense group, identified her as an employee of First Channel.
Tass cited an anonymous law-enforcement source saying she could be charged with an administrative violation for “discrediting” Russia’s armed forces.
Here is Marina Ovsyannikova’s video explaining her protest with English subtitles. Story here: https://t.co/xskROE7yxz pic.twitter.com/f9No6sCV9e
— Paul Sonne (@PaulSonne) March 14, 2022
First Channel is Kremlin-backed and one of the primary tools of Putin’s messaging campaign to rewrite the narrative of the war for more than 140 million Russians.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has praised the Russian TV editor who ran onto a live state TV news with a sign protesting Moscow's invasion of Ukraine that read: 'Stop the war... They can't put us all in prison'. He spoke after the brave Russian woman ran onto live state TV news with a sign protesting Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
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