The protester holds up a sign behind a studio presenter reading the news on Channel One and shouts slogans condemning Russia's February 24 invasion of Ukraine. RussiaUkraineCrisis
LONDON, UK – The Kremlin on Tuesday, March 15, dismissed as “hooliganism” an act of dissent by a woman who interrupted a live news bulletin on Russia’s state television to denounce the war in Ukraine.
“As far as this woman is concerned, this is hooliganism,” said Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, who went on to laud the state channel as a pillar of objective and timely news. prevent “genocide” against Russian-speakers, a justification dismissed by Ukraine and the West as a false pretext for an invasion of a democratic country.
State investigators were looking on Tuesday at whether she could be punished under a new law that carries jail terms of up to 15 years, Russia’s TASS news agency cited a law enforcement source as saying.
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