Journalist Marina Ovsiannikova, who became famous for protesting the Russian invasion of Ukraine live on a news broadcast on a state television channel, will publish an autobiographical book describing “the propaganda factory” in Moscow from which she fled after that episode that became famous in the first days of the war.
The book goes on sale in Germany on Friday, the day the author gives a press conference in Paris, at the headquarters of Reporters Without Borders, where she will tell how she fled Russia four months ago with her daughter thanks to the help of this NGO, despite being under house arrest.
The book, titled “Zwischen Gut und Böse” (“Between Good and Evil”, in free translation), will also be published in French and English at a later date, the publisher revealed.
In the first part of the work, which AFP had access to, Marina Ovsiannikova, daughter of a Russian mother and Ukrainian father, tells in the first person how her protest was during the live broadcast of the most watched news in Russia, while she was a sign that it said “No War” (No to war). The journalist explains how this public intervention interrupted her professional and family life.
In her book, Ovsiannikova does not deny that she was part of Putin’s regime: her husband, whom she divorced and with whom she had a son and a daughter, is one of the directors of the Russia Today (RT) network.
The journalist also describes some of the pros and cons of the television “propaganda factory” she worked for, Pervy Kanal. An example is that information about Russian President Vladimir Putin should never be accompanied by bad news. He also says there is still a latent ban on spreading good news across the United States and Western Europe.
The book ends with his clandestine escape from Russia, whose border (without specifying which country) he crossed on foot with his daughter.
Source: DN
