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The Guardian - UK
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Pjotr Sauer

Russian woman behind on-air war protest reportedly escapes house arrest

Marina Ovsyannikova in court in August
Marina Ovsyannikova in court in August. She has been added to the interior ministry’s online list of fugitives. Photograph: Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images

Russia has put Marina Ovsyannikova, the former state TV editor who interrupted a news broadcast to protest against the Ukraine war, on a wanted list after she reportedly escaped house arrest.

The Ukrainian-born Ovsyannikova, 44, gained international attention in March after bursting into a studio of Channel One, her then employer, to denounce the Ukraine war during a live news bulletin, holding a poster reading “no war”. At the time she was fined 30,000 roubles (£460) for shunning protest laws.

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