BERLIN – “Stop the war. Don’t believe the propaganda. They lie to you here.”
Marina Ovsyannikova, an editor at Russia’s Channel One, the largest TV channel in the country, staged a sensational interruption of the evening news on 14 March with a protest against Russia’s war in Ukraine. For about six seconds, millions of viewers of Russia’s premier propaganda channel were treated to Ovsyannikova standing behind the newsreader, holding an anti-war banner and shouting “no to war, stop the war”.
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