show their own martyrs, because it s not a war. yeah, that s true, russian official media don t call this war a war, they call it a special operation . but at the same time on sunday news in the evening, the first channel, it s like it s one of the two most popular state tv channels in russia it showed the pictures of russian militaries honouring them for the things they did in ukraine, and they actually showed the pictures and said, like, this person killed two nationalists, this person destroyed ten tanks, etc, etc. so they re all trying to create this narrative. they re creating heroes, or at least they re trying to. i would like to finish where we began with vera, from tv rain. and, just in the last few seconds of the programme, vera, do you have hope that russian media may become freer once again in the future? right now, i have no answer.
with a sign that reads, stop the war. do not believe propaganda. they are telling lies here. she released this prerecorded message before her protest. translator: what s happening now in ukraine is a crime and russia, their sensibility for the lives and conscience of only one person, vladimir putin. go and do not be afraid. they cannot arrest us all. maria ovsyannikova. brian stelter, we were still concerned about her whereabouts and now know she s in a courtroom. what are we learning? we don t know if she s sentenced to ten days in jail or ten years in jail. it s draconian, 15 years in prison for calling a war a war. we don t know exactly what she s facing but we know she s in custody and was almost the moment she made this on-air protest. it was seen for only a few seconds on russian tv but it s
official media don t call this war a war, they call it a special operation . but at the same time on sunday news in the evening, the first channel, it s like it s one of the two most popular state tv channels in russia it showed the pictures of russian militaries honouring them for the things they did in ukraine, and they actually showed the pictures and said, like, this person killed two nationalists, this person destroyed ten tanks, etc, etc. so they re all trying to create this narrative. they re creating heroes, or at least they re trying to. i would like to finish where we began with vera, from tv rain. and, just in the last few seconds of the programme, vera, do you have hope that russian media may become freer once again in the future? right now, i have no answer.