Russian journalist who staged TV war protest given 8 1/2-year jail term in absentia

Just another reasonable sentence on a thoughtcrime from the land of smiles.

Brave woman for speaking the truth in public.

This is modern fascist Russia. No criticism of the fascist regime is tolerated.

I just hope Mini-me does not get at this brave woman.

Mockery of "law and order", alas.... Somehow, this article has reminded me that the international criminal court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant for Putin for the forced deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia. Why not ICC hands down a verdict "in absentia"?

Tells you all you need to know about current Russia. No crime was committed, genuine act of free-speech, happened in a "democracy" (according to Putin), and results in a jail term longer than some murders.

This is just petty and childish behavior by the governing bodies, an embarrassment on the world stage.

War protestors end up in jail, or worse thrown out of windows. How many years for reporting on the war? 15 years.

No freedom of speech or media.

Really. More than 20,000 anti-war protestors arrested.

In Russia things are not so subtle. Wrongspeak and wrong think land you in prison directly.

In America and the West, they cancel you for these, and you lose your job, your reputation, and your platform gets taken away or closed down. You may also have bank account closed down. Oh, and you may go to prison too, but it will be on some bogus charges. See Russell Brand, Chris Hedges, Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, and Alina Lipp.

And this is why journalists the world over are terrified to be honest, or, they are the weak willed ones who got brainwashed into believing the lies.

Naturally, just like we have this article determined to make you think "its only Russia", there are surely news items in Russia designed to make people thing "Its only America and the West", probably leaning hard on Edward Snowden and Julian Assange.

Well, its both, and it usually is, and no surprise either. Scum floats to the top.

Blessed is that who believes in freedom of speech in the West. wallace, when was the last time you ran into a TV studio with provocative posters?

When was the last time someone in ‘the West’ got 8 years in prison for a provocative poster?

You can’t defend this.

Julian Assange

War protestors end up in jail, or worse thrown out of windows.

So, wallace, who was or were thrown out of windows? I have missed the facts

8.5 years is nothing.

The following individuals who challenged their government on January 6th got more:

Enrique Tarrio: 22 years. ...

Stewart Rhodes: 18 years. ...

Joe Biggs: 17 years. ...

Zach Rehl: 15 years. ...

Peter Schwartz: 14 years. ...

Daniel “D.J.” Rodriguez: 12 years. ...

Dominic Pezzola: 10 years. ...

Thomas Webster: 10 years.

8.5 years is nothing.

The following individuals who challenged their government on January 6th got more:

I won’t paste your list because we both know it is irrelevant nonsense.

None of those people just held a poster. You know this, everybody knows this. You are fooling nobody.

The following individuals who challenged their government on January 6th got more:

this woman held up a poster in protest, very different to smashing in windows and forcing you way into the capitol building.

Imagine if a group of thugs decided to storm the Kremlin, there would be no trials theyd all be dead, gunned down where they stood.

It amazing just how many Putin sympathizers there are, that live in free democratic nations

Keepyer InternetpointsToday 07:18 pm JST

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I would certainly never claim that the US is a land of milk and honey, and the Assange situation is dead wrong. However, the US is, in my opinion, a far better country to live in than Putin's Russia.

You may disagree. However, people are lining up to get into the US, whilst they're lining up to get out of Russia (and all other authoritarian nations).

commanteerToday 07:56 pm JST

It's not pro-Russian to point out that the US is no longer the bastion of freedom it claims to be.

No, it's not. And no-one here said that it was.

I said there's a lot of pro-Russia disinformation on here, which there is.

She can return when Putin's dead.

She can return when Putin's dead.

She can but for what? No one is waiting for her. She betrayed her son 18yo, her mother. She has ruined the whole family. Let her stay in France

She can but for what? No one is waiting for her. She betrayed her son 18yo, her mother. She has ruined the whole family. 

Did you ask the whole family? Did they say they preferred her to go to prison instead?

You are transparent.

The obvious Russian propaganda shills are earning their rubles. The attempt to influence international opinion in Putin's favor is a very old tactic used since WW2. It only works on the MAGA cult though, since they lack the ability to see the correlation between what Putin's Russia says, and the propagandists say.

So yeah, Russian "democracy" is non-existant, freedom of speech, and criticism of Putin's poor push to recreate the Russian "Empire". Remember how so many fools kept insisting US was "imperialist"? Putin's actions are actual imperialism. Conquer and ANNEX territory for expansion.... that is IMPERIALISM. Russians that actually call it for what it is, get arrested... For being against imperialist expansion.

Politicians who lie cannot be tolerated. Add in that in Russia, "the machine" can dictate who is allowed to speak and what they are allowed to say and you have a terrible situation for happiness and getting along with others.

Keepyer InternetpointsOct. 4 06:44 pm JST

In Russia things are not so subtle. Wrongspeak and wrong think land you in prison directly.

Yes, that is why it is a lawless state. A sane person would stop their comment there.

In America and the West, they cancel you for these, and you lose your job, your reputation, and your platform gets taken away or closed down.

Absolutely none of which is as bad as being thrown in prison where they can also do all of the above to you either during your detainment or afterwards.

You may also have bank account closed down.

I believe some sources are in order that non-criminals have had their bank accounts frozen.

Oh, and you may go to prison too, but it will be on some bogus charges. See Russell Brand, Chris Hedges, Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, and Alina Lipp.

I'm not going to look all of this trash up, but were any of them even arrested?

And this is why journalists the world over are terrified to be honest, or, they are the weak willed ones who got brainwashed into believing the lies.

Not as terrified as they are in the wastelands of press freedom of China and Russia.

Naturally, just like we have this article determined to make you think "its only Russia", there are surely news items in Russia designed to make people thing "Its only America and the West", probably leaning hard on Edward Snowden and Julian Assange.

Well, its both, and it usually is, and no surprise either. Scum floats to the top.

That's why we have objective measures of these things, to prevent shameless both-sidesing.

https://rsf.org/en/index

However, the US is, in my opinion, a far better country to live in than Putin's Russia.

When your yardstick is Putin's Russia, you know things are awful bad.

When your yardstick is a literal interpretation an internet comment, you know things are awfully bad. How about acknowledging for once that Russia's current government is a blight on humanity.

At this point, you are trying to start a debate on who is the better slave master.

Sane people don't believe that every government in the world is a slave master.

I said there's a lot of pro-Russia disinformation on here, which there is.

There isn't save for maybe a smidgen.

Lmao. There are entire articles swarmed by them and sometimes you are part of the swarm.

But there is a LOT of misinformation here, and bots, and trolls, and sock puppets, and censors, but the Russian ones would not bother with this site I think.

Why? They have something better to waste their 50 cents on?

"They're lying to you"

Indeed they are, and have been for decades about loads of wars other than the one in Ukraine.

"They come for me in the middle of the night, and they'll come for you, too!!!"

How can anyone live in a country without freedom of speech?

Thuban

8.5 years is nothing.

The following individuals who challenged their government on January 6th got more

Let's look at it in perspective. She photo bombed a TV broadcast with a sign that said: "They are lying to you". = 8.5 years in prison.

The people on your list committed seditious conspiracy.

This isn't a both sides thing.

I'm not going to look all of this trash up,

That you don't automatically know who they are and what happened or is happening to them is why everything you say is utter trash.

I believe some sources are in order....

Said immediately before your comment above. Why would I source anything for you when you are not going to look the cases of world famous individuals you should already know about anyway?

You take none of this seriously. Your rebutals are a joke.

And I have found that I have to not put Ovsyannikova's on my list of heroes after all. Like you she lives in a delusional world where she thinks the collective West is run by actual democracies with a free press. I found this out by watching a few interviews with her, the one with Beth Rigby being one of the worst, where the interview talks too much and keeps using the word "propaganda" as if she herself is not peddling a veritable ton of it. Of course Ovsyannikova never calls her out so I have to assume she does not, in fact, think the Western press is lying like I thought she did, or, she is toeing a line so she does not get shipped back to Russia.