The 43-year-old will report from Ukraine and Russia, among other places, and write for the newspaper “Welt” as well as being regularly connected to the TV station of the same name. she was became world famous with a protest poster on Russian television against the war in Ukraine.
In March, the editor of Channel One of Russia’s state television held a protest poster against Russia’s attack on Ukraine for the camera on the main news. The poster read: “Stop the war. Don’t believe the propaganda. You are being lied to here”. The action triggered a wave of recognition worldwide. The Kremlin in Moscow condemned the action. The journalist was fined.
First post: “The Russians are afraid”
The editor-in-chief of the Welt Group and spokesman for the management of WeltN24, Ulf Poschardt, assumes that the security situation in Russia has improved for the journalist because she is now working for a German medium, “because we give her more visibility gets,” he said at the request of the German Press Agency. The 43-year-old works from Russia for “Welt”.
When asked whether the engagement of the Russian journalist as a house also wanted to send a political signal to Putin, Poschardt replied: “We do journalism, not politics. Good, courageous, incorruptible journalism is a threat to every autocrat and dictator. He is also a threat to those who narrow the corridors of opinion in open societies like ours.”
The journalist has already published an opinion piece that could be read on the online site of “Welt” on Monday. Under the heading “The Russians are afraid,” she writes about the consequences of her TV appearance.
While the mother of two is celebrated internationally by many as a heroine, she is also exposed to hostilities in her home country. In addition, Russia’s judiciary has already imposed a first fine, and a second is imminent. Among other things, Ovsyannikova is accused of “public actions to discredit the deployment of the armed forces of the Russian Federation”.
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Source: Nachrichten
