Marina Ovsyannikova

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Vladimirovna and the family name is Ovsyannikova.

Marina Ovsyannikova
Марина Овсянникова
Ovsyannikova in 2023
Born
Marina Vladimirovna Tkachuk

(1978-06-19) 19 June 1978 (age 46)
Odesa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
NationalityRussian
Alma materKuban State University
Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
OccupationJournalist
Employer(s)Channel One Russia (2003–2022)
Die Welt (2022)
Children2

Marina Vladimirovna Ovsyannikova (Russian: Мари́на Влади́мировна Овся́нникова, Russian pronunciationⓘ;[1][2] née Tkachuk (Ткачу́к);[3] born 19 June 1978)[4][5] is a Russian journalist who was employed on the Channel One Russia television channel.[6] She worked for Russia's main evening newscast Vremya on Channel One since the beginning of the 2000s,[7][8] later describing her role as "producing Kremlin propaganda".[9]

In March 2022, she interrupted a broadcast of Vremya to protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which made international news headlines. She was arrested, held without access to her lawyer, fined 30,000 rubles (280 dollars at the time), and later released. As of early October 2022, she is wanted by the Russian justice system after escaping her pre-trial house arrest; her lawyer says that she fled to Europe.[10] In February 2023, it was revealed she had fled to Paris, France with her daughter.[11]

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  3. ^ Зырянов, Никита (2022-03-14). Журналистка и выпускница КубГУ вышла с пацифистским плакатом во время прямого эфира новостей на Первом канале [A journalist and graduate of KubSU came out with a pacifist poster during a live news broadcast on Channel One]. Yuga.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2022-03-14.
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  5. ^ Женщине, ворвавшейся в студию программы "Время", грозит административное дело [A woman who broke into the studio of the Vremya program faces an administrative case]. tass.ru. 2022-03-14. Retrieved 2022-03-21.
  6. ^ Shevchenko, Vitaliy (2022-03-15). "Ukraine war: Protester exposes cracks in Kremlin's war message". BBC. Retrieved 2022-03-15.
  7. ^ Sivtsova, Sasha; Reiter, Svetlana; Bashkirov, Semyon (2022-03-16). "'Everyone knows they're lying'". Meduza. Translated by Rothrock, Kevin.
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  10. ^ Preussen, Wilhelmine (2022-10-17). "Russian anti-war protest journalist Marina Ovsyannikova flees to Europe". Politico. Retrieved 2022-11-16.
  11. ^ "Russian anti-war protest journalist Marina Ovsyannikova flees to Europe". POLITICO. 2022-10-17. Retrieved 2023-03-08.