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Politiken Editorial: With her act of courage, she demonstrated to an entire world that the truth cannot be suppressed in the long run – not even in Putin's lie-ridden Russia

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Foto: Handout/Ritzau Scanpix
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All wars give rise to resistance movements and unexpected heroes. Let us now celebrate one of the great Russian champions of freedom, engaged in the fight against Putin’s war in Ukraine: Marina Ovsyannikova.

This week, she single-handedly showed the world that the truth cannot be suppressed, not even in Vladimir Putin’s increasingly autocratic and repressive Russia. Exhibiting indescribable courage, the Russian editor interrupted a live news broadcast on state-controlled Channel One and burst onto the set with the message:

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