Russian mum who staged anti-war protest on live TV escapes Moscow house arrest
A RUSSIAN mum who staged an anti-war protest on live TV has escaped from house arrest in Moscow.
Brave Marina Ovsyannikova, 44, was put on a wanted list after giving police the slip.
Her husband said she took their 11-year-old daughter and fled “in an unknown direction,” according to state-owned Russia Today.
The propaganda channel had earlier called her a traitor and demanded she stand trial for treason.
The courageous Ukraine-born journalist was facing up to ten years in prison after marching in front of TV cameras with a placard saying “Stop the war” and “They’re lying to you”.
It is not clear how she escaped.
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Her protest garnered worldwide attention as it cut through Russia’s censorship before the live feed was cut on the flagship Channel One news.
She has been charged with spreading false information about the Russian armed forces and was placed under two month’s house arrest in August RT quoted her husband as saying: “Last night, my ex-wife left the place that the court assigned her for house arrest and, together with my 11-year-old daughter, fled in an unknown direction.”
The case relates to a protest in July when she stood on a river embankment opposite the Kremlin and held up a poster calling President Vladimir Putin a murderer and his soldiers fascists.
