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Marina Ovsyannikova: 'Interrogators didn't believe TV protest was my idea'

During Monday evening's main evening news programme on Russia's state-controlled Channel 1 TV, an editor at the station, Marina Ovsyannikova, was detained after she ran on to the set holding a sign in Russian and English saying "no war".

Speaking to the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s Caroline Davies, Ovsyannikova explains that her interrogators could not believe the protest was all her own idea and that she needed a break from being a "cog in the Russian propaganda machine".

Ovsyannikova was fined and is still under investigation.

Photo: Marina Ovsyannikova, the editor at the state broadcaster Channel One who protested against Russian military action in Ukraine speaks to the media as she leaves the Ostankinsky District Court. Credit: Getty Images.

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