The Basmanny court sentenced former Channel One employee Margarita Ovsyannikova on charges of “fakes” about the Armed Forces. She was sentenced in absentia to 8.5 years in prison in a general regime colony, the capital’s prosecutor’s office clarified.
Ovsyannikov was also deprived of the right to engage in activities related to the administration of websites of electronic or information and telecommunication networks, including the Internet, for a period of 4 years.
The prosecution asked for 9.5 years for Ovsyannikova.
Earlier, the woman’s ex-husband Igor Ovsyannikov said that she had escaped from house arrest. According to him, Ovsyannikova disappeared in an unknown direction along with her 11-year-old daughter. Ovsyannikov added that the girl has not attended school for a month, and he knows nothing about her whereabouts.
Ovsyannikova was previously sentenced several times to administrative fines under the article on discrediting the Russian Armed Forces – Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses and under Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses – for violating the legislation on public events.
As Rosbalt reported, Marina Ovsyannikova became famous after an incident in March 2022, when she burst into a live broadcast of Channel One with a pacifist poster. After that, she was fined 30 thousand rubles, and she left the Russian Federation for a while.
Source: Rosbalt
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