Marina Ovsyannikova

is a Russian journalist who was employed on the Channel One Russia TV channel. She worked for Russia’s main evening newscast Vremya on Channel One since the beginning of the 2000s, later describing her role as “producing Kremlin propaganda”. In 2022, she interrupted a broadcast of Vremya to protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine. As of early October 2022, she is wanted by the Russian justice system after escaping her pre-trial house arrest.