France Offers Asylum to Russian War Protester #World https://t.co/cv7MHlWw0U
— Naharnet (@Naharnet) March 15, 2022
President Emmanuel Macron said La Belle France is offering protection from the French embassy and asylum to the anti-war activist who interrupted a news program on Russia’s state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
, holding a poster protesting the war in Ukraine.
An independent human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
group that monitors political arrests identified the woman as Marina Ovsyannikova. The group, OVD-Info, posted on its website that Ovsyannikova, who identified herself as an employee of the station, was taken into police custody.
Macron said he will "propose this solution in a direct and very concrete manner" to Russian President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...in their next phone call.
| Update from The Times of Israel at 2:10 a.m. ET: |
A judge at Moscow’s Ostankino district court ordered state TV employee Marina Ovsyannikova to pay a fine of 30,000 rubles ($280) after she barged onto the set of Russia’s most-watched evening news broadcast holding a poster reading "No War."
The mother of two could have faced a maximum punishment of 10 years in detention for calling for illegal protests.