"No war" was written on the TV editor's handwritten sign when she ran into the studio for just under five seconds during Kanal 1's live broadcast.

Shortly afterwards, she was arrested by police, and fined 30,000 rubles.

On Monday morning, it was Kanal 1's news director Kirill Klejmenov's turn to appear live, when the channel commented for the first time on Marina Ovsjannikova's proposal.

He called her a traitor because she had been in contact with the British embassy and conducted interviews with Western media. 

- An emotional act is one thing.

But betrayal - it's something else, when a person betrays his country and all of us with whom she has worked side by side for 20 years. 

Described as Judas

Klejmenov also made a reference to the Bible and compared Ovshannikova to Judas and his betrayal of Jesus.  

- A betrayal is always a person's private choice, you can not prevent anyone from.

But it is important to name things correctly, says Klejmenov. 

- If the well-known act for thirty silver coins had been called an "impulse", then world history would probably have looked different.  

Marina Ovsjannikovas has spoken to several newspapers about the action, and says that she hopes not to be imprisoned.

She has been offered asylum in France, but has announced that she intends to stay in Russia. 

Broadcasts propaganda

The Russian journalist Inga Layzan has previously been the host of Channel 1. She describes the channel as a propaganda center, where not much has changed since she left 10 years ago.   

- Free and critical thinking people have long since stopped watching Kanal 1 because they broadcast propaganda that is there to form the right opinion among the population, she tells SVT. 

Inga Layzan says that Kanal 1 is primarily consumed by pensioners who live outside the big cities.

There, the channel has very high confidence and many have Channel 1 around the clock. 

- When you work at Kanal 1, you are under constant control and you have no choice but to lie flat for the demands placed on you, says Layzan.

- Ovsiannikova's coup would be impossible to carry out twenty years ago, as the studio was guarded by a security guard with automatic weapons.