“I don’t regret one bit what I did,” Marina Ovsyannikova told the Guardian in a phone interview on Wednesday. “I will not take a single word back. These are my views.”…
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“First they cancelled the governor elections, then they started to ban independent media, then they poisoned [opposition leader Alexei] Navalny. My anger kept on growing. I was experiencing cognitive dissonance, the country wasn’t going in the right direction.
“The war was the last drop and I decided to act,” she said.
In a separate interview with Reuters, she added: “I believe in what I did, but I now understand the scale of the problems that I’ll have to deal with and, of course, I’m extremely concerned for my safety.”
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