LONDON — A Russian court fined a woman 30,000 roubles (US$280) on Tuesday after finding her guilty of flouting protest legislation when she interrupted a live news bulletin on state TV and denounced the war in Ukraine, the RIA news agency reported.
Marina Ovsyannikova, a Channel One employee, held up axjmtzyw sign behind a studio presenter reading the news on Channel One on Monday night and shouted slogans condemning Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine.
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A woman held up a sign protesting the war in Ukraine on a Russian state TV broadcast Monday night.
