One day after police in Paris said an investigation had been launched into her possible poisoning, exiled Russian television journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, who staged a high-profile protest against the war in Ukraine, wrote on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, on October 13 that blood tests show no evidence of poisoning. Reporters Without Borders said on October 12 that Ovsyannikova suffered what was described as a “malaise” outside her Paris apartment. Ovsyannikova gained international recognition last year when she interrupted a live Russian television news broadcast to protest Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
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