Marina Ovsyannikova interrupted a broadcast on a Russian state channel last month with a sign that said: 'Don't believe propaganda. You are being lied to.'
, has a new job in Germany. Ovsyannikova had been detained and released after she went on a primetime broadcast of Russia's Channel One with a sign that read"You are being lied to." announced on Monday that the 43-year-old will report for Germany's WELT as a freelance correspondent, writing for the newspaper as well as contributing to its TV news coverage. She will be reporting from Ukraine and Russia, among other areas, the publisher said.
Ulf Poschardt, the editor-in-chief of the WELT Group, said Ovsyannikova"had the courage to confront Russian viewers with an unembellished view of reality," in what he described as a"crucial moment." Following her release, she told Reuters that Russian President Vladimir Putin's February invasion of the neighboring country, as she grew up in Chechnya. The small republic in southern Russia was besieged by Russian forces in the 1990s and early 2000s in two brutal wars caused thousands of deaths.
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