Anti-war Russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikova made headlines in the spring after she interrupted a major Russian-state television network’s live broadcast carrying a sign that read ‘No War,’ while telling viewers they were being lied to. A ruling on Thursday fined Ovsyannikova 50,000 roubles after finding her guilty of “discrediting the army.” “What’s going on here is absurd,” she said before the court. “War is horror, blood and shame.” “Your accusations are like accusing me of spreading monkeypox … The purpose of the trial is to intimidate all the people who oppose the war in the Russian Fe…
