Today, the Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded in Oslo, after which the other Nobel prizes will be awarded with the biggest party in Stockholm. will broadcast the award ceremonies live online.
The Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded today in Oslo under the shadow of the war in Ukraine. The three recipients announced in October represent democratic movements in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus.
– Putin stops when he is stopped. Autocratic leaders view dialogue as a weakness, says head of award-winning Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties Oleksandra Matviychuk.
According to him, the president of Russia Vladimir Putin has yet to be brought before the International Criminal Court. CCL has been investigating Russian war crimes in Ukraine for the past eight years.
Also chairman of the board of the award-winning Russian Memorial human rights organization Jan Racinski told the press in Oslo that Ukraine is fighting not only for its own independence, but also for common peace.
Belarusian human rights activist Ales Byalyatsky is not in Oslo like the other awardees, because he is in pretrial detention in Belarus. He was imprisoned during the 2020 mass protests.
– The future of Belarus is also decided on the battlefields of Ukraine, says Bialiatski’s wife, receiving the award Natalja Pintšuk.
‘s live broadcast of the award ceremony in Oslo starts at 1:45 p.m.
Later in the afternoon, an award ceremony will be held in Stockholm where the other Nobel Prizes will be awarded in medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and economics.
Two thousand guests will be present at the gala held at Stockholm City Hall, including royals and the 2020 and 2021 laureates, whose award ceremonies were not held due to the corona restrictions.
will also broadcast Stockholm’s award ceremony live from 16:50.
The Nobel laureates each receive 10 million Swedish kronor, or about 917,000 euros.
Sources: AFP, Reuters