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Journalist behind protest on Russian state television receives European human rights award | Abroad | DR A Ukrainian NGO would rather see an award recipient who has worked against propaganda for several years.Of Maybe you remember the name Marina Ovsjannikova. If not, you may better remember the pictures of a woman holding up a sign on Russian state television that read "no war." The video of the Russian journalist went around the world as she ran in on Monday, March 14. behind the news host, who was broadcasting tonight's, on the poster Marina Ovsjannikova had written: "Stop the war, do not believe. They are lying to you" in Russian. showed a feature. Based on that episode, she received the Vaclav Havel Prize today, which is a human rights prize that is awarded every year to people who, according to the award winners, make a unique contribution to. The Vaclav Havel Prize is named after the deceased Czech President, poet and playwright Václav Havel. After Havel resigned from the presidency in 2003, he worked for the observance of human rights and the establishment of democracy in, among other places, Ukraine. Since 2013, the prize has been awarded annually to people working for r human rights. With the prize you get 60,000 euros, which is equivalent to a little over 446,000 kroner, a diploma and a trophy. The prize is awarded by the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly. Source: coe.int, The Great Dane she posted a video on the internet in which she explained her protest. Marina Ovsjannikova was born in Odesa and has a Ukrainian father and a Russian mother. She grew up in Russia and started working for the Russian TV station Kanal 1 in 2003.- I have been involved in making for the Kremlin here. I am ashamed to have been involved in spreading lies and having brainwashed the Russians, it sounded, among other things, from the Russian journalist in the video that was posted on the Internet. - The next ten generations will not be able to remove the shame from the war. the entire video, which Marina Ovsjannikova posted on social media, including.Today, the Russian journalist works for the German media. Here she is covering Ukraine and Russia. After starting her new job, she has written several columns about her old job at one of Russia's largest TV channels. In one of them, she describes how part of her job was to search the internet for bad stories about the United States and other Western countries.- One of the tasks was to constantly tell how bad life in the United States and in the West in general is - also in Ukraine. All had to be poorly manufactured. Only in Russia were things always rosy, writes Marina Ovsjannikova in a post in .It has, among other things, caused the Ukrainian NGO Vitsche Berlin to be skeptical of Marina Ovjsannikova. German media Welt announced that they had hired Ovsjannikova, Vitsche Berlin protested in front of the media. In a statement, the NGO writes that they are against her employment because "it is impossible to find out whether Marina has stopped its cooperation with Russia." - There is such a thing as ex- or ex-propagandist, it reads from the activists in their .For one of the founders behind Vitsche Berlin, Eva Yakubovska, it is hard to believe that Marina Ovsjannikova can now live up to journalistic standards, as objectivity in her reporting, after producing for several years.Under the organization's demonstration of Marina Ovsjannikova's employment at Welt, Klaus Geiger, the media's head of the foreign affairs editorial office, replied that he was convinced that she was sincere. be more open to people who no longer want to be part of the system in Russia anymore.- And with our history in Germany, we have had colleagues who have been journalists in the former GDR, and who subsequently became very talented journalists here. Still, the organization does not rejoice that Marina Ovsjannikova will be the recipient of this year's Vaclav-Havel award. They would rather see the award given to another journalist or activist who has worked against Russia for several years. - When we do not focus on them, we say the same thing as Putin's and Russia's imperialist: You are alone. Nobody cares.- We are still not fighting for equality and human rights. We are just fighting for the limelight, says Eva Yakubovska. According to her, support for Ukraine is always important - and better late than never. One of the Russian journalist's assignments so far has brought her to Moldova, where she interviewed Ukrainian refugees. But according to Vitsche Berlin, it is a completely wrong place to use Ovshannikova's forces. If those who dare to speak out are met with hatred from both sides, from Russians and Ukrainians, then it is a gift to the Kremlin's propaganda. to interview Ukrainian refugees in Moldova, she should tell all about her previous work.- With the stories she can tell, we were able to find out how it works and how we can overcome it. But right now we are missing the most important story, says Eva Yakubovska. In another column, Marina Ovsjannikova writes that it sounds to her like a new form of censorship if she were not allowed to work for a Western media because she previously made.- If those who dare to say from are met with hatred from both sides, from Russians and Ukrainians, then it is a gift to the Kremlin, she writes in the post.- Then they can just say "see what will happen to you if you go against us. No one will thank you, they will just destroy you. "According to the foreign director of Welt, that was exactly part of hiring the Russian journalist. He added that her material could help other Russians choose the path of protest. The Russian TV channel Channel 1 is the oldest and one of the largest TV channels in Russia. Marina Ovshannikova worked here for 18 years. where she as an editor was one of the few people in Russia who had unlimited access to news from the West through news agencies and like Reuters, and The New York Times.- I worked at the foreign editorial office. I looked at the other side, I saw what people were saying. I saw how our lie, and it became a symbol of the Kremlin - lies and constant cynicism.- The disgust grew over the years. Over the last few years, it grew so much that I got really tired of it, says Marina Ovsjannikova to the American media, .When the war started, the Russian Channel 1, according to Marina Ovsjannikova, no longer used pictures from international. Only pictures that Russian authorities had made or that they sent home were radiated into the homes of Russians.- We did not show the extent of the humanitarian crisis, refugees in Poland. Although I could see it on my screens, we clearly did not show it, says Marina Ovsjannikova to .More anti-war protesters in Russia have been fined and jailed after a new law came into force in Russia that makes it punishable by up to 15 years of imprisonment if you spread what according to Russian authorities is "false information". This means, among other things, that they must not use the word "war" in their coverage of the war in Ukraine. Instead, it should be called a "military special operation." was posted on the Internet.But according to Marina Ovsjannikova, it was the Kremlin to give her a small fine, as according to her it has led to neither Russians nor Ukrainians trust her.- The Kremlin is quite clever. They have thought it through and have a pretty good strategy: they are trying in every way to devalue my action, she says, and continues: - I am hated on both sides, and for the Kremlin it is useful. I think they are rubbing their hands over how well a piece of work they have done to solve their problem.