Marina Ovsyanikova, a Channel 1 employee who staged an on-air protest while holding an anti-war sign behind a studio anchor, speaks to the media as she leaves a courthouse in Moscow, Russia, March 15, 2022, in this still image taken from video. REUTERS TV via REUTERS/File Photo
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July 17 (Reuters) – Russian media worker Marina Ovsyanikova, who staged a protest against the invasion of Ukraine live on state television in March, was briefly detained in Moscow on Sunday, posts on her social media channels showed.
“Marina is under arrest,” said a post on her Telegram channel, under images of two police officers leading her to a white van.
Shortly after, Ovsyannikova posted photos of herself and two dogs on her Facebook page.
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“I went for a walk with the dogs, just out the gate, uniformed came up to me,” she wrote. “Now I sit in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Krasnoselsky,” referring to a police station in a Moscow region.
Three hours later, Ovsyanikova said she was released. “I’m home. Everything is fine,” she wrote on her Facebook page. “But now I know it’s always best to carry a suitcase and a passport if you’re going out.”
Ovsyanikova rose to prominence in March after she stormed into the studio of Russian state television, her employer at the time, to denounce the war in Ukraine during a live news bulletin. Read more
She was fined after being found guilty of breaking protest laws. Read more
Her brief detention on Sunday followed social media posts on July 15 in which she was seen holding a poster calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a murderer and his soldiers fascists. “How many more children have to die before you stop?” the poster read.
German media outlet Welt hired Ovsyanikova as a correspondent in April. She returned to Russia earlier this month, writing on Facebook that she was forced to return to defend her parental rights in court against her husband.
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Reporting by Elaine Monaghan in Bloomington, Indiana; Editing by Lincoln Feast.
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