Panama - Russian journalist gets slap on wrist for anti-war demo


(MENAFN- Newsroom Panama)

Marina Ovsiannikova, a news editor of a Russian television network who broke into a pro-Kremlin news program to denounce the offensive in Ukraine, went on trial on Tuesday, March 15, for having demonstrated illegally, according to the Moscow Ostankino district court. The image went viral around the world.

She was fined has $280 but was not been charged with the crime of publishing 'false information' about the Russian Army, punishable by up to 15 years in prison.

 

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