Marina Ovsyannikova, a journalist who staged an anti-war protest during Russia’s most-watched news programme has been hired by German newspaper Die Welt.
Ovsyannikova hit the headlines after she ran on to the set of Channel One’s Vremya holding a sign reading: “No war, stop the war, don’t believe the propaganda, they are lying to you here.”
She was detained for 14 hours and eventually fined 30,000 rouble (£214; $280).
But despite the potential risk of further prosecution, the 43-year-old editor decided to stay in Russia, where she will now be a freelance correspondent for Die Welt “reporting from Ukraine and Russia, among other places”.
In a statement, Ovsyannikova said she had taken the new role because the newspaper “stands for what is being defended so vehemently by the courageous people on the ground in Ukraine right now: for freedom.”
