The fearless Russian journalist arrested for disrupting a live television broadcast said she was left with no choice but to speak out against President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
“I have been feeling a cognitive dissonance, more and more, between my beliefs and what we say on air,” Marina Ovsyannikova said during an interview with CNN on Wednesday. “The war was the point of no return, when it was simply impossible to stay silent.”
Now widely hailed as a hero for her bravery, Ovsyannikova, an editor at the state television’s flagship Channel 1 News, added her actions were all the more necessary because so many citizens are so easily brainwashed by the Kremlin’s propaganda.
