About the Author
Marina Ovsyannikova is the daughter of a Russian mother and a Ukrainian father. As a child, she had to flee the war in Chechnya with her mother and therefore knows firsthand what it means to be a refugee. As a journalist, she has worked her entire life for Russian state television. She initially worked as a reporter and news anchor for regional television and has been a news editor at Channel One since 2003. Her work as a Western media observer gave her a rare insight into world events beyond Putin's propaganda. Nevertheless, she remained part of this machinery for many years, as she herself admits. But the cognitive dissonance in her soul grew with each passing year. The war in Ukraine was a point of no return, a point where silence was no longer an option for Marina. She could not remain indifferent as Russian troops began bombing Ukraine and millions of refugees crowded at the Polish border. After her protest, Marina found herself in the midst of an information war that changed her life forever.