Maria Ovsyannikova, who protested live on air last year, is now in France but still fears for her life.
BBC Paris correspondent
"Our [last] vehicle got stuck in the mud," she told me, "and we had no mobile phone coverage - we tried to find our way by the stars. It was a very dangerous and stressful escape." "I wrote my first text message to Marina the day after she went on TV with that sign," he told me. "I sent her a message saying: Do you need help? We are here for you."
Now settled in Paris, Ms Ovsyannikova, 44, says she is still "of course, afraid for her life", but believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin is risking his leadership over the war in Ukraine."The people are living in this bubble of propaganda, but the ruling elite - those who have lost their planes, their yachts, their finances - they understand everything. As soon as a Ukrainian victory gets closer, I believe, the ruling establishment will present Putin with a big bill.
As she collected her belongings from the office, she told me that "I saw in my co-workers' eyes a totally compassionate expression. Further protests, including a demonstration near the Kremlin in July, saw her facing charges under a new Russian law, banning "deliberately false information" about Russia's armed forces.
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