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Nobel Peace Prize Winner Dmitry Muratov Warns Against War

INTERNATIONAL: Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dmitry Muratov, has recognized for their fight for freedom of expression in and Russia, held a moment of silence for dead colleagues in the end of his speech on Friday, 10 December in Oslo, Norway.

Muratov, editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, was jointly awarded the prize with Filipina journalist Maria Ressa, "for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace".

Muratov has mentioned journalism in Russia was going "through a dark times", with over a hundred journalists, media outlets, human rights defenders and non-governmental organisations having been branded as foreign agents. In Russia, this means one thing - "enemies of the people." Many of our colleagues have lost their jobs. Some had to leave the country. People are deprived of the opportunity to live a normal life for an unknown period of time. Maybe forever."

Ressa and Muratov are the first journalists to receive the prize since Germany's Carl von Ossietzky won the 1935 award for revealing his country's secret post-war rearmament program.

Muratov says that the award today goes to the entire community of real investigative journalists. He shares the award to his colleagues who have exposed money laundering schemes and ensured that billions of stolen roubles have been returned to the treasury, they have revealed offshore accounts and stopped logging of Siberian forests

He also shares that hybrid warfare and the tragic, ugly and criminal story of the Boeing MH17 have ruined relations between Russia and Ukraine, he even mentions that he doesn’t not know if the next generations will be able to restore the relationship between the two countries.

The events we see in the centre of Europe, in the Eastern Ukraine have been extended by a game, which is now turning into bloodshed, which was initiated by the the President of Belarus Lukashenko.His soldiers chase refugees who have come from the Middle East towards rows of guards armed with machine guns who protect the borders of the European Union. Both sides accuse one another, and the desperate people are between two fires.



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