The Russian anticonflict journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, she was accused of being a “British spy” and of having had contact with the British embassy shortly before her burglary during the news program of Channel One of Russian state television to protest the war in Ukraine. The serious allegations were made by the director of information programs of Channel One, the channel concerned, Kirill Kleimenov, who spoke on video: “According to our information he said not long before the protest, Ovsyannikova spoke to the British embassy “. The suspicion was immediately returned to the sender by a spokesman for the Foreign Office of Boris Johnson’s government: “He didn’t any relationship with us he said it’s just another lie spread by the Kremlin’s disinformation machine.
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In fact, Kleimenov accuses her colleague of being a “spy” paid by the British and of working for the London secret service. “He betrayed his country and all of us in cold blood for a fee,” Kirill Kleimenov said in the video. “An emotional impulse is one thing he added but an act Treason But on the contrary”. According to Kleimenov, the action was also “planned.
As the BBC reported, the Russian opposition newspaper Novaia Gazeta had previously written that Ovsiannikova had long been interrogated in Moscow on suspicion of alleged contacts with foreign secret services. The journalist was immediately stopped after the raid during the news and fined 30,000 rubles for the content of a video recorded before her protest, for which she still has to answer.
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