{"id":250933,"date":"2022-03-15T07:36:07","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T07:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=250933"},"modified":"2022-03-16T08:43:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T08:43:25","slug":"theyre-lying-to-you-russian-tv-employee-interrupts-news-broadcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=250933","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They\u2019re lying to you\u2019: Russian TV employee interrupts news broadcast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pjotr Saeur \u2013 The Guardian March 15, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

An employee on Russia\u2019s state Channel One television has interrupted the channel\u2019s main news programme with an extraordinary protest against Vladimir Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Marina Ovsyannikova, an editor at Channel One, burst on to the set of the live broadcast of the nightly news on Monday evening, shouting: \u201cStop the war. No to war.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also held a sign saying: \u201cDon\u2019t believe the propaganda. They\u2019re lying to you here.\u201d It was signed in English: \u201cRussians against the war.\u201d<\/p>\n

The news anchor continued to read from her teleprompter speaking louder in an attempt to drown out Ovsyannikova, but her protest could be seen and heard for several seconds before the channel switched to a recorded segment.<\/p>\n

Ovsyannikova also released a pre-recorded video via the OVD-Info human rights group in which she expressed her shame at working for Channel One and spreading \u201cKremlin propaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRegrettably, for a number of years, I worked on Channel One and worked on Kremlin propaganda, I am very ashamed of this right now. Ashamed that I was allowed to tell lies from the television screen. Ashamed that I allowed the zombification of the Russian people. We were silent in 2014 when this was just beginning. We did not go out to protest when the Kremlin poisoned [opposition leader Alexei] Navalny,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are just silently watching this anti-human regime. And now the whole world has turned away from us and the next 10 generations won\u2019t be able to clean themselves from the shame of this fratricidal war.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wearing a necklace in the blue and yellow of the Ukrainian flag, Ovsyannikova said in her video statement that her father is Ukrainian and her mother is Russian.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is happening in Ukraine is a crime and Russia is the aggressor,\u201d she said. \u201cThe responsibility of this aggression lies on the shoulders of only one person: Vladimir Putin.\u201d<\/p>\n

She urged fellow Russians to join anti-war protests in order to bring an end to the conflict. \u201cOnly we have the power to stop all this madness. Go to the protests. Don\u2019t be afraid of anything. They can\u2019t imprison us all.\u201d<\/p>\n

The protest was welcomed by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy. In a video address on Monday night he said: \u201cI\u2019m thankful to those Russians who don\u2019t stop trying to deliver the truth, who are fighting against disinformation and tell real facts to their friends and families, and personally to that woman who went in the studio of Channel One with an anti-war poster.\u201d<\/p>\n

OVD-Info said that Ovsyannikova was arrested shortly after her protest and was being held at the Ostankino television centre. Pavel Chikov, head of of the Agora human rights group, later said Ovsyannikova had been arrested and taken to a Moscow police station.<\/p>\n

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Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Russian TV news employee risks imprisonment by appearing live on air with \u2018Don\u2019t believe propaganda\u2019 message. If only her western counterparts were as independent minded. Unfortunately they probably believe the lies they mouth <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":250935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,25,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-The_Media","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250934,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250933\/revisions\/250934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/250935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}