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Ukraine faced new turmoil Sunday with President Volodymyr Zelensky announcing he sacked his top two law enforcement officials, in the government's most serious shakeup since Russia launched its deadly invasion in February. The domestic crisis came as the European Union prepared to discuss tightening sanctions against Russia on Monday, and…

A Russian TV journalist who interrupted a broadcast to protest the war in Ukraine has been arrested and released by police.

“It is impossible to stop a speeding train by throwing oneself onto the tracks,” wrote Russian poet Dmitry Kuzmin back in March. He was commenting on Olga Gordienko, a young teacher who, before she was arrested, stood for several minutes on a Moscow street with a sign that read:

Marina Ovsyannikova held up a “stop this war” sign during a live broadcast just three weeks into Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which has seen her called a "traitor" by Kremlin officials

Journalists often do their best work in places that offer the least welcoming environment.

Their enthusiastic use of bad language contrasts with Putin’s linguistic prissiness – and shows that Russia doesn’t own Russian

A Russian journalist who stormed a live state tv broadcast with a ‘No War’ protest has joined a German newspaper.

Germany’s Welt media outlet has hired Marina Ovsyannikova, the journalist who interrupted Russia’s most-watched television news show with an anti-war protest last month in a rare public criticism of President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

Natalia Sindeeva, who set up independent Dozhd TV - which was shut down following the invasion - said she was pessimistic that the majority of the public could be reached with the truth about Putin's invasion