The former TV editor interrupted a live news program on March 14 last year by holding up a sign reading “stop the war, don’t believe the propaganda, they’re lying to you.”
Wednesday’s verdict, however, concerns a later protest outside the Kremlin. According to the law, the sentence must be served in a penal colony.
Marina Ovsjannikova is being sentenced in absentia because she fled Russia last year.
In a statement before the verdict on Tuesday, she called the charges “absurd and politically motivated.”
“Of course, I do not plead guilty. And I do not deny any of my words. I made a very difficult, but the only right moral choice in my life, and I have already paid a high enough price for it,” she said.
The Russian authorities have banned the media from describing the war in Ukraine with words such as “war”, “offensive” or “invasion”. Only official information from official sources may be reported.