Marina Ovsyannikovathe Russian antiwar journalist who interrupted the Russian news broadcast to protest the conflict in Ukraine supposed such as corresponding from DieWelt. This was announced by the owner of the Deutsche Zeitung. AxelSpringer, who specified: “He will report for print and the news channel Die Welt from Ukraine and Russia”. Corresponding Ulf Poschardt, director of the Welt group, Ovsiannikova “had the courage to confront the Russian viewers with reality at a crucial moment”, adding that with her gesture the journalist “defended the profession despite censorship”. “As a journalist, I consider it my duty to defend freedom,” commented hiring Ovsiannikova. The reporter was arrested and then released by Russian law enforcement after he displayed an antiwar sign behind a colleague who was covering the news. He published his first article in the German newspaper: “The Russians are afraid”. PoschardtWhen asked whether the newspaper also wanted to send a political signal with this assumption, he replied: “We do journalism, not politics. Good, brave and incorruptible journalism is a threat to every autocrat and dictator.”
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“My life is divided into a before and an after. At some point, moral principles became more important than wellbeing, freedom of the soul more important than a regular life. The war in Ukraine was the point of no return, the point of no longer being silent, he wrote Ovzyannikova in the article published in the German newspaper. She had admitted in the past few weeks that she was afraid for her life and that of her children because, among other things, she had remained isolated from her colleagues. Welt managing director Ulf Poschardt explained that he believes that the journalist’s security situation can be improved by the new job at the newspaper “because it gives her more visibility”. In the text ‘The Russians are afraid’, the reporter, now a correspondent from Russia for the newspaper of the Axel Springer Group, says that she is “subjected to incredible harassment“On social networks. “The Ukrainians think I’m an FSB agent, the Russians write that I’m a traitor working for the British services. Everyone is looking for hidden motives and the most incredible conspiracy theories. No one wants to believe mine was just a citizen’s emotional protest.” The forms of retaliation are just as varied: from breaking down his car (in the parking lot of the TV station he worked for until the protest) to having the dog food supply cut off by the (progovernment) company he used to buy from. Ovsyannikova explains that Russians are afraid and that many young people do not vote in the elections precisely to avoid retaliation. But there are reasons not to lose optimism, he adds: “More and more people are writing to me that they are ready to do anything just to stop this delusion“. And he cites cases of civil resistance, like that of the former Aeroflot pilot, Sergey Knishovwho gave his clear no to the invasion of Ukraine.