Russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikova faces prison time after she held up a banner critical of President Putin’s actions in Ukraine.
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A Russian journalist who was fined three times for criticizing the war in Ukraine has now been detained and faces 10 years in prison if convicted, her lawyer said.
Marina Ovsyannikova, who rose to international fame in March when she held up an anti-war sign behind the anchor of a news broadcast on state-funded Channel One, has been charged with spreading false information about Russia’s armed forces, lawyer Dmitry Zakhvatov said in a Telegram post. Ovsyannikova’s home was raided and she was taken for questioning Wednesday, he said.
Ovsyannikova, born to an Ukrainian father and a Russian mother, quit her job as a Channel One producer and became an activist after her initial protest, which led to her arrest and a fine.
In July, she held up a banner calling out Russian President Vladimir Putin that said: “Putin is a killer, his soldiers are fascists. 352 children have been killed (in Ukraine). How many more children should die for you to stop?”
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No one cares
Sound familiar? Exactly what is happening to the right and trump. Question the election, get your house raided by the fbi. Be a political opponent and have your whole life gone through, even when your not there no more. You on the left are commie Nazi scum. Ur side literally just pulled a Putin haha.
This is very sad. She was speaking out against war. Something people have done for thousands of years.
Nobody, and I mean NOBODY cares about Ukraine anymore. Can Americans mind their own business just for ONCE?
While Americans are suffering from higher gas prices, inflation, and paychecks getting smaller, our government spending their time on the Ukraine drama. Meanwhile, our country is going down the tubes.
My health insurance bill is up to $650/month. My gas is up to $6 a gallon, grocery bill up big, my rent is $3000/month, only things cheap still is car insurance (25/month from Insurance Panda), electric bill ($22 from Solar Melon), and my gym ($15/month from Planet Fitness), but I’m sure those'll go up soon too.
Did I mention it costs $100 to fill up my CRV now?? No one actually cares about Ukraine with a multitude of other issues rotting the country and putting livelihoods at stake.
War is death and destruction. The journalist is right. It’s a tragedy that politicians can’t see behind their own selfish agendas!!
When Phil Donahue questioned the Iraq war MSNBC fired him.
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Комментаторы, успокойтесь))) Россия всего лишь исправляет ошибки США, маленькой и слабенькой Америки, вы наверняка знаете что славяне – это самая сильная диаспора на планете, славяне не поддерживают ЛГБТ и любые прочие психические отклонения, навязываемые властями западных стран для замалчивания своих проблем, мы даже не половину своих сил будем использовать на Украине, любая западная помощь с оружием оборачивается против Запада, посмотрите на мир с обратной стороны, веть вас трахают в задний проход, а вы верите в американское чудо)
Россия воюет и с США на территории Украины и побеждет США, неудачный президент США, который уже не может самостоятельно одеть пиджак, падает с трапа самолёта, здоровается с воздухом, это и есть сущность власти США, которая для нас не является никакой угрозой! Будем бить до тех пор, пока некоторые люди не придут в сознание
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In 60 AD Apostle Saint Andrew traveled to the area of Kiev, preached, and said, one day a great city would be built here with many churches to the glory of God. Today there is a church to Saint Andrew in Kiev. The peoples in the area were Slavic. Kyi, Shchek and Khoryv, three brothers and the sister Lybid founded Kiev in 482 AD, Kiev was named after the older brother Kyi. Kiev the older brother was King. Herodotus wrote that Hercules had founded this land.
The Rus were Viking tribes that settled peacefully in Kiev as far back as 750 AD with the Slavs there, 400 years before Moskva existed. The name Russia, coming from the city Moskva, has no connection to the RUS. Russia coming from Moskva started with Batu Kahn much later as a vasal under Mongolian rule. All the early Czars were Mongolian and of no connection to the RUS. The Rus were with the Slavs to the south in Kiev. Moskva were Finnish Urgic Tribes; Mosk means cow and Va water, which are Finnish names. There was no RUS there. The ethnic background of Moskva is Finnish-Urgic and Mongolian. The Rus developed the religion, city Kiev, alphabet, churches, and had its saints. The founder of Kievian Rus (800) or the Rus was a Viking named Askold or Oskold (Norse) from Sweden; not Oleg as in the Russian story. Kievian Rus exists long Before Novgorod and Oleg’s arrival there. Askold is the Slavic name. Oskold, the first King of Kievian Rus was in Kiev before Oleg in Novgorod. Oskold had 200 ships and 20,000 warriors. Oskold was baptized in Constantinople (128 years before Volodymyr) and sent the first bishop back to Kiev. Oskold and Dir were the first Dynasty of Kievian Rus. Askold rules from the 40-60s and Dir to the 80s. Askold is buried in Kiev and the first Kievian Christian King & Dynasty. Oleg followed coming from Sweden through Novgorod and was a pagan. Russia as named today started in the city of Moskva over 400 years later after Kievian Rus or Rus. From Kiev, the capitol of Rus, Kievian culture was spread, much like the Greeks Hellenized the known world, or like the British anglicized the world by the English language. This process does not make Moskva to become RUS in as much as Persian are not Greek. How we are misled by a name; Russia. The capitol of the RUS has always been Kiev. There is no other RUS and no RUS in Moskva. Many say Ukraine began recently; but the culture of the RUS is Kievian RUS, both culture and ethnic background. Ukraine is a name given by Poland meaning outer lands. The land of the RUS before the Mongolian invasion was very large. The name RUS is a Norse name which means men that row; there are no men that row in Moskva. So Moskva adopted the name Russia while being a Mongolian vassal, essentially traitor to the RUS; and all the Czars were Mongolian-Finnish. The Culture of the Mongolian was centralized power, and that cultural imprint was passed on to present day Russia. Ukraine’s real name should be Kievian RUS, or Kievskarus! Russia began in Moskva by Batu Kahn and Novgorod conquered much later, still no connection to the Rus.
Putin & Lavrov should be ashamed of themselves, the USSR was an occupation; it never had the status of a sovereign state and due process of law that would be associated with a free society. Even today the mentality of the gulag exists. There is no freedom of press and speech, people are arrested for speech, there is no due process of law, and the religion is state run making it a totalitarian theocracy. As such, it did not deserve to exist in a free world; and history has shown such totalitarian organizations fail over time and author in many gulags. The true culture of Russia is Finno-Ugric and Mongolian, having nothing to do with the RUS (Kievian), expect borrowed as in the sense of Hellenized or Anglicized "forms" as a comparative reference. The centralized form of Russian politics is a very Mongolian imprint on culture. The actions of Putin seem to be another Mongolian invasion of Kiev; here I suggest as to the correct metaphor. I believe so. Putin & Lavrov insistence to have purview over eastern Europe also seems like paying tribute to the Mongolian Horde. Moskva started as an agglomeration of Finnish tribes, combining a Finnish name meaning cows water and developed by Mongolian culture. Mosk means cow and Va means water. The RUS are men that row, Vikings, Norse, established Kiev 400 years before (750 AD) Moskva even thought to exist. The name Russia for current nation is totally inappropriate. The current Russia started in Moskva; how misleading is the name Russia coming from Moskva that has no connection to the RUS. All the lands should be returned to Kiev; the West of Russia to Finland, and the East to Mongolia. Russia’s place on the globe appears as a temporary aberration in my view. To use threats of Nukes publicly strikes at the heart as adolescent behaviour; surely any nation or person that issues such threats and being an ally to such while not even having war imposed on them is not fit to rule. This would include allies of Russia. Oh yes, I remember, Russia didn't invent the bomb, they stole it in the 1940's and gave it to Kurchatov. Russia struggles with an identity crisis since its beginnings unoriginal to the ethnic groups. Its errors are numerous, 50 million killed by Stalin in WW2, allied to the Nazis to kill the Poles for their defeat in WW2, Holodomor where millions of Ukrainians were killed and grain stolen, and constant antagonist with Europe. We even have the Holy Mother announcing Russia’s errors at Fatima. Russia is a Mongolian culture and all the first Czars were Mongolian and Batu Kahn is the author.
Oskold was the grandson of Ragnar the king of Sweden, his name is old Norse and spoke old Norse, the name Rus is old Norse, he settled peacefully in Kiev and the Slavs made him king, he brought Christianity to Kiev with his son dir…his burial mound is where St Nicholas church is built, Oleg wasn’t even in Novgorod when this happened, and Oleg is not a Rus nor old Norse name. The Slavs called Oskold the name Askold. After came Dir, Oleg was a pagan who assassinated Dir, Oskold becomes the first dynasty…later when the line of kings get to Vladimir, he is captured at a trading post by the Mongols, the post is called Moskva, and the king killed. Moskva as a city was a Mongolian invention, and Novgorod becomes a part of that Russia by conquest, although having nothing to do with the Rus. Oskold line is Ragnar, ironside, Oskold from the King of Sweden Ragnar. Oleg is via Rurik coming much later. The accounts of Oskold are within the time, Al Mamun an Arab writer of the time wrote of Oskold, the Russian chronicles come hundreds of years later. In much the same way accounts of relevant history are better understood by those of the times, much like the Bible, dating to the original times makes the account authentic. The Russian chronicles are merely a tale and inaccurate.
Kiev was a city over 1000 years before Russia even existed. Kiev was Kievian Rus before Novgorod and when Oleg arrived. Putin is kidding himself if he thinks any part of Ukraine belongs to Russia. We can see that Israel belongs to the Jews, similarly all the lands around Kiev of Kievian Rus belong to Kiev as a single nation and city state. Russia's beginnings are a wanting child begun as a captive insurgency having nothing of its own; a captive state that was reeking in servitude to Mongolia and invented by Mongolia. The entire culture of Russia from Moscow is Mongolian centralized power, a pagan culture of no empathy and Christianity. The Christianity is tainted as a state religion or theocracy and politicized. History is often obscured by being written by the ones in charge. The history of Ukraine has been obscured by the Soviet Occupation and cultural appropriations. Moscow in an attempt to appropriate a history not its own, rewrote the narrative of history to cover up its compromised origins; Kiev and Ukraine is a history much older and more civilized; making contributions to civilization. Russian despotism becomes the blueprint, foundation & model for every despot nation, look at its allies; the error of its ways has spread throughout the globe; much like the message from the Holy Mother at Fatima. Those that are sympathetic to Russian atrocities can find similarities in their own histories. Ukraine has a democracy at a local level Moscow never had and fears. Russian boundless ignorance is a type often found in the poorest of nations, and usually the poorest have a history of the hardest tyrants over them that also inflict poverty, physical and spiritual, on others they attempt to subjugate, a reflection of their own lives, an abomination of desolation.
Askold was in Constantinople in 860 and Oleg arrived in Novgorod not until 862. The Arabs referred to Askold as the Slavic King or King of the Slavs which he had been for a while. Pontius says Askold brings Christianity to Kiev from Constantinople and a bishop. Ragnar the Norse King of Sweden was born in 767 AD, his son Bjorn ironside was born in 796 AD, and grandson Oskold (Askold) was born in 820 AD. Askold arrived in Kiev in 840 and had a son Dir, Both become King and the first Christian dynasty. Askold dies and gets a burial mound in a park in Kiev. Dir follows as King. Dir is assassinated by Oleg who is a pagan. Nobody knows who Rurik is or who the father is . Oleg is a generation away from Askold. Olga of Kiev builds a church on Askold’ s burial grounds. Pontius of Constantinople says Askold brings a Bishop and Christianity to Kiev. Russia much later is a Mongolian invention….
Russia has the truth. Ukraine is full of nazis and corruption. Look at the Azov Battalion. They dont even want to hide it. Why would any sane person support nazis?
Such a brave woman
Huh I wonder why she was not protesting when the Ukrainian was shelling Russian speaking citizens for the last 8 years ? Russia should give her the death penalty
Your courage,so big..by your side,heroine!
People in Russia don't have freedom of speech and press, which are actually guaranteed by the constitution of Russia. The government of Russia violates the constitution of their own country.
Tant mieux, et qu'elle y reste très longtemps, les enfants morts hanter ont vos rêves ?? Si son pays ne faisait ce qu'il a à faire, ils auraient été hanté par les enfants de leur propre pays. 🙄🙄🙄 La Russie est seulement l'ennemi utile de l'otan et des us. 🇺🇸🇪🇺🔥🤮🖕
Was wondering what happened to her. I need to keep remembering her before I see all Russians as cowardly slaves. Those Russians who where on holiday on the Crimea deserve a lot worse imo.
You can’t even talk bad about the government there ? Don’t trip Russians… the rest of the world is doing that for you I’m sure.
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Beautiful Russian women aren’t stupid, I can’t say the same about our women here in the USA : /
Poor russians… I wish you'll have a democratic leader one day and enjoy freedom 🙁 You have to keep it up, you need a new gorbachev!
I wish Marina and her lawyer the best of luck. I was also at the border, helped the refugees. I know what Marina wrote about, her writings are important. This senseless war of aggression is terrible. What kind of creatures are the Russian citizens who watch the cartoons on TV and doing nothing. There is a saying in my country : "Only the crying baby gets milk. " or "If you don't ask you don't get." I think about this that if the regime dare to hurt Marina, they will now incur the wrath of the whole world. It will be revealed anyway, and there will be consequences. I think about this that anti-war Russian people should be encouraged because the new generation is now learning to fight against the regime. The older age group does not dare because they are afraid, but the young people have the opportunity. They must be given a chance to wake up their brainwashed citizens, wake up the zombies. Fortune favors the brave. The experience must be passed on to those who dare, the one who wins, the time has come, now there is a gap in the shield, they must act now, they must not wait 70 years again and again. The scissors will close, there is no time to hesitate. They become materially and spiritually impoverished. Those Russian residents who do not want war and are now hesitating can still be saved, they just need to be encouraged from all sides. Later they would have a good life if they had the courage overthrow the regime and become a free democratic country. All my respect to Marina. I wish them good luck, further courage and a fruitful struggle. The future belongs to the brave.