Journalist Marina Ovsyannikov in the Russian Federation was sentenced to 8.5 years in absentia for "military fakes"

The former editor of the "first channel" stated that she did not plead guilty. The location of the journalist remains unknown after escape from Russia. The Moscow Basman's Court condemned the former editor of the "Time" program on the "first channel" of Russian television Marina Ovsyannikov to eight and a half years of imprisonment with a term in the colony of the general regime and prohibiting administering Internet resources within 4 years after release.

On Wednesday, October 4, Ovsyannikov was found guilty of the article on discrediting the Russian army and spreading fakes about war in Ukraine for reasons of political hatred. The court was forced to adopt a correspondence sentence, since the current location of Ovsyannikov was unknown. About it reports the Russian service BBC. The reason for the criminal case was a single picket of the journalist in July 2022, when she reached the Sofia embankment opposite the Kremlin with an anti -war poster.

"Putin is a killer. His soldiers are fascists. 352 children were killed. How much else should children die to stop?" - It was written on a poster. The prosecution qualified the actions of Ovsyannikov as "the creation of a real threat to forming a negative attitude towards the Russian army in society. " The prosecution in court was made by the staff of the Department of Extremism of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, as well as members of the former man, son and mother of Ovsyannikova.

Ovsyannikov was discussed in March 2022, when she broke into the Program "Time" on "The First Canal" and behind the back of TV presenter Kateryna Andreeva launched a poster with the inscription "No War". After that, Demarsh Ovsyannikov was fined 30 thousand rubles for "organization of uncoordinated public action" and released from the "first channel". After that, she went to Germany, where she became a freelance author of the German edition of Die Welt, but returned to Russia in a few months.

After a picket on Sofia embankment, Ovsyannikov was detained and sent to house arrest. But on October 1, a week before the expiration of the arrest, the journalist escaped from the country with her daughter, and now its location is unknown. On the eve of the court session, Ovsyannikov stated that she did not admit her guilt and did not refuse any of her words. "I made a very difficult but only correct moral choice in my life and has already paid for it a fairly high price.