A journalist interrupts Russian TV news with anti-war proclamations

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International Newsroom, 14 Mar A journalist from Channel 1 of Russian television broke into the live broadcast of the evening news program Vremya today shouting proclamations and brandishing a cartel against the war in Ukraine, after which she was arrested. “No war. End the war. Don't believe in propaganda. They're lying to you here. Russians against war”, read the banner that the journalist held, according to the Sputnik agency. At the same time, the journalist shouted several times in the middle of the broadcast “stop the war” and “no to war”. The channel, one of the leading Russian state television, confirmed the fact and opened an investigation into what it called an “accident with an intruder”. According to the head of the human rights protection group Pavel Chikov, the journalist, Marina Ovsianikova, was arrested by the police, says Sputnik. A video of the journalist calling Russia's ongoing war operations against Ukraine “aggression” circulated on social media and holding President Vladimir Putin directly responsible. After saying that he was “very embarrassed” to work for Channel 1 because he told lies, he accused television of “zombifying Russian people”, and called to take to the streets. CHIEF cd/mmg NOTE TO SUBSCRIBERS. Agenzia Efe has temporarily suspended news production from Russia due to the threat posed to its journalists by the newly approved reform of the penal code. Efe will continue to report as far as possible from other places on this serious crisis.

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