A Russian court has fined Marina Ovsyannikova 30,000 roubles (£215) for violating protest laws after she interrupted a live news broadcast on Channel One in an extraordinary demonstration against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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The fine was a relatively light sentence after French president Emmanuel Macron offered her consular 'protection' and said he would raise her case with Vladimir Putin.

Ovsyannikova was fined for a video statement she made before the protest in which she said she was ashamed of having worked at Channel One and spreading 'Kremlin propaganda', not for breaking on to the Channel One set

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