On Monday, Sweden’s Aftonbladet called Marina Ovjanikova, a TV editor who protested last week’s Ukraine war. While the TV presenter was speaking live, Ovsjannikova stood with a poster behind the TV anchor, in which she wrote “No to war. Stop the war. Don’t believe the propaganda. Everyone lies here. Russians are against war ».
She was arrested and fined 30,000 rubles, equivalent to less than 3,000 crowns. Before the weekend, she resigned from her position at the state-owned Channel One. She told FRANCE 24 that she will remain in Russia with her family (Read special status).
Now her former boss has come out and accused her of being a Judas.
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Aftonbladet was promised an interview with Ovsjannikova, but wrote to the newspaper on Monday that she should cancel.
– I’m sorry, I can’t talk today. You write I am afraid because I have been accused of treason Aftonbladet.
Compared to Judas
On Monday, her news director, Kirill Klimenov, broadcast live and accused her of treason. A crime punishable by 20 years in prison.
He denies that this was a purely sentimental act.
Betrayal is always a person’s own choice. It’s not something you can stop someone from. But it is important to name things correctly. If the famous instrument of 30 silver coins was called the “impulse”, then probably the history of the world would have been different, Klimenov said. Thus he referred to the money of Judas – the thirty silver coins that Judas obtained from the Romans for betraying Jesus.
When someone fails in their country and all of us I’ve worked with for the past 20 years. He said it was a cold-blooded and calculated betrayal, despite the fact that we had agreed a reward.
With the support of the West
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The 44-year-old, who no longer wanted to participate in what she believed to be the spread of Vladimir Putin’s propaganda for the Russian people, has received huge support in the West. When she was imprisoned last week, French President Emmanuel Macron said he would bring up her situation with Putin.
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