The woman, identified as TV station employee Marina Ovsyannikova, was taken into police custody.
MOSCOW -- A live evening news program on Russia's state television channel was interrupted Monday by a person who walked into the studio holding a poster protesting the war in Ukraine.
The moment was a risky protest in a country where independent media has been blocked or shuttered and it has become illegal to contradict the government's narrative of the war. An anchor was speaking during the newscast when a woman appeared on camera behind her holding a sign with"no war" scrawled in English across the top, with a message in Russian below calling on people not to believe Russian propaganda.
A live evening news program on Russia's state television was interrupted Monday by a person who walked into the studio holding a poster protesting the war in Ukraine.Russia's state TV regularly amplifies the government line that says troops entered Ukraine to save people from"neo-Nazis" and to defend Russians from a country that was preparing to attack. The invasion of Ukraine is being characterized in Russia as a"special military operation.
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