Letters to the editor: A triumph of truth over propaganda

Russian journalist who disrupted a TV news broadcast with her hard-hitting anti-war message should be recognised for her bravery

Marina Ovsyannikova holding up a hand-written poster saying "No War" in English on Russian state media news.

Our hearts should go out to Marina Ovsyannikova, the Russian journalist who disrupted a TV news broadcast with her hard-hitting anti-war message.

Her protest was a triumph of truth over propaganda and contrasted brilliantly with the official line of a State-controlled media that has sought to whitewash the actions of a cruel regime. It reminded me of another brave woman, Sophie Scholl, the German dissident who in February 1943 was arrested by the Gestapo for distributing hundreds of leaflets in Munich University, exposing Nazi atrocities.