Nobel Prize for Journalism – Nobel Peace Prize Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muradov – News

This is a symbolic date on which the editor-in-chief of “Novaya Gazzetta” Dmitry Muradov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize: a day after the deadline for the assassination of his former colleague Anna Politkovskaya, SRF reporter Lucia explains.

Despite the fact that a total of six journalists were killed from the “Novaya Gazette”, the Nobel Prize committee justifies the award to Murado with the fact that he adhered to the principles of journalism.

The newspaper represents the values ​​of Gorbachev’s founding policy

Muradov, a representative of Russia’s perestroika generation, received the award. “Novaya Gazzetta” was significantly owned by the first Russian president, Mikhail Gorbachev.

It represented the values ​​of the founding policy under Gorbachev, who began his tenure as general secretary of the Communist Party in the 1980s, from its inception. Under Vladimir Putin, these representatives of the Russian community were increasingly pushed to political prominence.

In view of the current wave of repression against the independent Russian media, the Nobel Peace Prize is a symbol of appreciation for all democratically based Russians.

Putin is likely to respond with a shrug

President Putin shrugged his shoulders at the Western awards. A few days after the assassination of Anna Politkovskaya, Putin publicly stated that his influence in the country’s domestic politics was low. Not to mention that Vladimir Putin took care of it personally. The award for Murado is a clear political statement against the Kremlin leader.

One can only hope that Russian journalists, independent of the little-known media outside the capital of Moscow, will not be completely forgotten.

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2013: The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) For their use against globally banned weapons of mass destruction.

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