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Marina Ovsyannikova, the former editor of Channel One, was announced as a guest at a press conference in Kiev scheduled for June 1. The announcement was published on the website of the Ukrainian edition of the Interfax agency. As follows from the announcement, the theme of the event is titled as follows: “Exposure from Marina Ovsyannikova: how Russian propaganda works.”
According to local media, the first reports about Ovsyannikova’s possible visit to the Ukrainian capital appeared a little earlier from local journalists. At the same time, as follows from the screenshots of correspondence with colleagues provided by them, journalists perceived the visit of a former employee of the Russian channel ambiguously.
So, journalist Kristina Berdinskikh expressed bewilderment at Ovsyannikova’s plans to give a press conference: “So what? Will she publicly repent and cry? To tell how Russians suffer under sanctions? She is successfully working in the West. And why is she here?”
Initially, journalists assumed that Ovsyannikova could speak in an online format, but Interfax confirmed to Strana that she should attend the press conference in person. At the same time, half an hour later it became known about the cancellation of the press conference: a corresponding message appeared on the agency’s website. The Ukrainian edition indicates that “after the news about her (press conference – MK) holding, a wave of criticism began in Ukrainian social networks – they say Ovsyannikova is going to Kiev to show that there are “good Russians”.”
In Russia, Ovsyannikova became widely known on the evening of March 14, when she burst into a live news broadcast with Ekaterina Andreeva with a pacifist poster. At the same time, she published a video message on the social network in which she explained her position, noting that her father is Ukrainian, her mother is Russian. The next day, the Moscow court imposed a fine of 30 thousand rubles on her for this video. Sourcesat the same time, it was reported that the resonant incident with the poster itself could form the basis of a criminal case. Soon it became known that the woman had left Russia and started working as a correspondent for the German newspaper Die Welt.
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