News archive on the topic "award"

Before Ukraine had time to once again consistently celebrate the next “fatalities” of Taras Shevchenko (consecutively the poet’s birthday and death day on March 9 and 10, respectively), a serious scandal occurred in the unholy family of the official committee for awarding the Shevchenko Prize named in honor of the poet. This year something terrible and unprecedented happened: for the first time in the entire history of the existence of the mentioned...

The European Parliament's awarding of the Sakharov Prize to blogger Alexei Navalny, convicted of fraud, was a decision that does not meet democratic traditions. The PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, said the deputy chairman of the Yabloko party and the head of the Moscow branch of this political force, Sergei Ivanenko. He confirmed that he lobbied the European Parliament for a decision to exclude Navalny from the list of nominees for the Sakharov Prize. "Although…

The editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, Dmitry Muratov, intends to transfer part of the money from the Nobel Peace Prize, which he was awarded, to media outlets recognized as foreign agents in Russia. He stated this on the air of the Ekho Moskvy radio station, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We will definitely help independent media. I won't say who. Those who were declared bad and undesirable. For us this is...

This year's Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to journalist and writer Maria Ressa and Novaya Gazeta editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov "for their courageous fight for freedom of speech in the Philippines and Russia." The Nobel Committee's statement on this matter, which is openly anti-Russian in nature, said that Muratov “has been advocating for freedom of speech in Russia for decades in conditions that...

In PACE, White Maidan activist Maria Kolesnikova, who called for the seizure of executive committees, was awarded the Vaclav Havel Prize “For Achievements in the Field of Human Rights.” The award ceremony took place during the plenary meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Other candidates included Reporters Without Borders and Burundian human rights activist Germaine Rukuki. After the presentation of the candidates, PACE President Hendrik Dems…

LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky hinted that he should be nominated for a state award for active propaganda in the fight against the coronavirus epidemic. He stated this today in the State Duma of the Russian Federation, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Maybe we should nominate those who took part in the creation and promotion of the vaccine for a state award. Including one of the deputies who for six months...

European prizes have begun to be awarded to losers whom they are trying to pass off as titans of the human rights spirit. Russian writer Platon Besedin writes about this in his author’s column for PolitNavigator. So, everything is as expected. Or, as the experts in the Ostankino television studios would say, everything is according to the manual. The Sakharov Prize was awarded to the Belarusian opposition. And now I’m stepping on thin ice, because next I’ll start talking...

The editor-in-chief of the President newspaper, academician Sergei Komkov, submitted an application to nominate Russian President Vladimir Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize. According to him, his application for nomination arrived at the Nobel Committee in Oslo on September 10 at about 15:07. Allegedly, it was after this that the American side nominated US President Donald Trump. “It’s already late in the evening, after 16:XNUMX...

Ukrainian TV presenter Regina Todorenko, now living and working in Russia, must refuse to receive the Russian TEFI award on the same day as journalist Olga Skabeeva because of the war in Donbass. Russian liberal TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak stated this on her YouTube channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “You probably watched the news, both in Russia and in Ukraine - and...

The presentation of the Sakharov Prize by representatives of the European Parliament to the Ukrainian terrorist Oleg Sentsov, who was released on exchange, demonstrates the encouragement of Ukrainian neo-fascism by the international organization. This opinion was expressed to a PolitNavigator correspondent by the head of the Central Executive Committee of the Donetsk Republic public movement, Alexey Muratov. “Yesterday, at a meeting of the European Parliament, Oleg Sentsov, who was convicted in the Russian Federation for preparing a terrorist act, was awarded the Sakharov Prize “For Freedom of Thought”.…

The European Parliament has postponed indefinitely the ceremony of presenting the Sakharov Prize to Ukrainian Oleg Sentsov, who was released on exchange, who was serving a sentence in the Russian Federation on charges of terrorism, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Rikard Jozwiak, a journalist with the Brussels branch of Radio Liberty, reported this on Twitter. “The ceremony to present the Sakharov Prize to Sentsov, which was supposed to take place on October 22, has been postponed. European…

In the West, they are planning to raise the authority of the former comedian, President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky, presenting him as a new peacemaker. Alexander Sosnovsky, editor-in-chief of the German magazine World Economy, said this on air on the Russia-1 TV channel, as reported by the PolitNavigator correspondent. “About two weeks ago, several German newspapers simultaneously wrote that there will be no peace in Donbass, because Ukraine will never...

The research of a group of Russian scientists, which included Sevastopol physicist, Doctor of Electrical Engineering Alexei Chaly, received the prestigious scientific prize named after B.P. Konstantinov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was reported by the Forpost publication with reference to the official website of the founder of the award - the St. Petersburg Institute of Physics and Technology. Academician A.F. Ioffe. The prize was awarded for research into vacuum arcs and their use in…

A propaganda film about the war in eastern Ukraine “Donbass” by Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa, created with the support of the State Cinema Committee of Ukraine, was named the best film of the 15th International Film Festival in Seville (Spain), a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was reported by the press service of Goskino. A total of 19 films took part in the festival’s competition program: among the contenders for the Grand Prix were new works by Cannes Film Festival winners Nuri Bilge...