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MOSCOW: A Moscow court on Thursday ordered journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, who denounced Russia’s intervention in Ukraine during a live TV broadcast, to pay a fine for discrediting the Russian army. Moscow’s Meshchansky district court said that Ovsyannikova, a former editor at state-controlled Channel One, should pay a fine of 50,000 rubles (around $800), a journalist said from court. Ovsyannikova’s lawyer Dmitry …

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