Brave Russian Anti-War Activists Risk Everything Under Putin’s Autocratic Regime

Marina Ovsyannikova, A Former Staffer At The State-Funded Russian News Outlet Channel 1, Runs On Set During One Of Channel 1's Live Broadcast, Holding A Sign That Calls For An End To The War In Ukraine, Before The Camera Cuts Away From Her. She Was Almost Instantly Detained By Russian Authorities And Put On Trial. Meanwhile, Russian Climate Activist Vlada Zhuravlyova Posts A Video To Twitter Explaining How Seriously Vladimir Putin And Russian State Media Takes Censoring Contrarian Voices To The Kremlin, As Well As The Punishment And Threats She Expects. Sam Seder and the MR Crew discuss.

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Sam Seder: This is pretty amazing and in some respects, I gotta say a little bit scary the prime ministers of Poland the Czech Republic in Slovenia are going to be meeting with Zelinskyy, the president of Ukraine today in Kyiv. Kyiv apparently was like getting bombed through the night I think there was a half dozen people or so who died targeting residential areas, apartment building, of course, it seems to be basically no one seems to be refuting that and nobody seems at this point to be shocked, this seems to be the plan, but it is a scary prospect you have nato leaders or I should say leaders of countries that are in NATO heading to a war zone because that opens up the potential of the Russians being able to widen this conflict. It also suggests that Kyiv, still now weeks you could say I think into this conflict, is relatively safe, so we will see. But what is really interesting is what's happening and we've seen multiple videos over the past couple of days of what's happening in Russia. this uh just came across the transom as it were, a former worker and it's unclear how she got into the studio, but this is she's a formal or maybe she's just former after she did this not quite sure but she's a formal channel one Russia staffer her name is Marina Ovsyannikova and this is what she did in the middle of the newscast I guess...

Emma Vigeland: Insanely brave...

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SS: And you see they just cut away to some other clip apparently, what was also amazing the newscaster didn't seem to even bat an eye...

EV: I know right.

SS: She just kept going and then uh put up the this is the she released a recorded statement um it's in Russian obviously so this is in Russian the translation is what is happening in Ukraine right now and she released this we should say timed with what she did on the television because I think she probably knew that she would end up being detained or arrested...