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A erstwhile Russian authorities tv writer who protested against Vladimir Putin’s penetration of Ukraine during a unrecorded broadcast has fled the state aft being enactment connected a wanted list.
“[Marina] Ovsyannikova and her girl near Russia a fewer hours aft departing from the code wherever she was nether location arrest. They are successful Europe now,” Ovsyannikova’s lawyer, Dmitry Zakhvatov, said.
“They are fine. They are waiting until they tin speech astir publicly, but for present it is not safe,” helium added.
The erstwhile exertion astatine Channel One made planetary headlines successful March erstwhile she interrupted a broadcast of its flagship Vremya (Time) evening news, holding a poster speechmaking “No war”.
She was placed nether location apprehension from August aft she held a lone protestation successful mid-July adjacent the Kremlin carrying a placard that work “Putin is simply a murderer. His soldiers are fascists.”
The 44-year-old was charged with distributing accusation astir the Russian equipped forces deemed by the authorities to beryllium mendacious – a complaint that could pb to a 10-year situation sentence.
Zakhvatov antecedently said Ovsyannikova had been enactment connected Russia’s wanted database for having evaded location arrest.
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