BERLIN – German media outlet Welt hired a reporter for an internationally renowned woman by storming the studio of her employer’s Russian state TV channel to denounce the Ukraine war in a live report. , its owner, Axel Springer said Monday. .
Marina Ovsyannikova, 43, will cover the Welt newspaper as well as the Welt TV news channel, including from Ukraine and Russia, Springer said.
Thousands of Russians have been detained for taking to the streets to protest the war, but Ovsyannikova went further, holding up an anti-propaganda sign behind a studio presenter reading the primetime news and shouting slogans. anti-war.
In a statement by Springer, Welt Group editor-in-chief Ulf Porschardt said that Ovsyannikova with her live demonstration “defended the most important journalistic ethics – despite the threat of repression by government.”
“I am delighted to be working with her,” he added.
Ovsyannikova told Reuters last month that she was concerned for her safety and hoped her protest would open Russians’ eyes to propaganda. She said that she has no plans to leave Russia.
State television is a staple of the Kremlin, which portrays the invasion as a “special military operation” aimed at the demilitarization and “denuclearization” of Ukraine.
Ukraine and the West argue that Russia has committed an unprovoked act of aggression.
Reporting by Maria Sheahan, Editing by William Maclean
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