Auctioning his golden medal would mean he shared in some way in the fate of refugees who had lost their mementoes and \u0027their past,\u0027 sats Dmitry Muratov
Muratov is the bear-like co-founder and long-time editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, a newspaper critical of the Kremlin that was itself established in 1993 with money from former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev’s Nobel Peace Prize.
“Now they want to take away their future, but we must make sure that their future is preserved … the most important thing we want to say and show is that human solidarity is necessary.” Muratov dedicated his prize to six Novaya Gazeta journalists murdered for their work, among them some of the highest-profile critics of President Vladimir Putin.He lamented the lack of a free media, and the severity of the state’s crackdown on protest.
“Independent journalism is impossible in modern Russia. Content delivery is possible, for example, through the YouTube platform. It is possible to deliver some content — alternative to the state view through VPN services. But this is getting more and more difficult every day.”Nobel Peace Prize winner Dmitry Muratov delivers a speech during the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony at the Oslo City Hall in Oslo, Norway, December 2021.
Moscow says it sent troops into Ukraine to defuse a military threat and protect Russian-speakers from persecution, assertions that Kyiv and its Western allies say are a baseless pretext for an unprovoked war of acquisition. “The powers-that-be have never been so united, never been so monolithic. People in power have nowhere to go: not Europe, not America, they are not allowed anywhere else. They are here. They are here like the crew of a submarine with no escape. And of course, they are united around the president.”
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