The speaker of the State Duma called on law enforcement agencies to deal with the incident on Channel One, when a girl ran out on air with an anti-war poster. The punishment should be “not at all in the plane of a hooligan trick,” he said.
Marina Ovsyannikova
(Photo: Mikhail Japaridze / TASS)
Channel One employee Marina Ovsyannikova, who on March 14 ran out with an anti-war poster behind the back of the TV presenter during the evening newscast, should be punished “to the fullest extent in the conditions of the time when a special military operation is taking place,” declared State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin on Telegram.
“This official of the TV channel has not a drop of concern for our guys, for our country. Law enforcement needs to sort this out. Not at all in the plane of a hooligan trick, but in all severity in the conditions of the time when a special military operation is taking place, ”he wrote.
According to Volodin, the State Duma Committee on Security will take control of the issue.
Channel One editor fined after on-air anti-war rally
Earlier on March 15, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that the country’s embassy in Russia was ready to provide consular protection to Ovsyannikova, reports Reuters. The editor-in-chief of the RT television channel Margarita Simonyan, in response to this, stated that Macron “sincerely does not understand that everything she [Овсянниковой] we shine – half a thousand euros of a fine. “Nothing will happen to her. Despite public outcry. Trust my experience.” wrote She’s on Telegram.