Germany’s Welt media outlet has hired Marina Ovsyannikova, the journalist who interrupted Russia’s most-watched television news show with an anti-war protest last month in a rare public criticism of President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Ovsyannikova, 43, will serve as a freelance correspondent for the Welt newspaper and its television channel reporting from Russia and Ukraine, according to a statement Monday from parent company Axel Springer SE.
Ovsyannikova was a producer at Russia’s state-run Channel One when she interrupted its flagship news program Vremya with a poster demanding an end to the war. She was detained for 14 hours and fined 30,000 rubles ($370).
