In the midst of war in Ukraine, the Nobel Committee chose to award its prize to criticism from Vladimir Putin and its regime.
Le Monde with AFP
A price in the form of a criticism of Vladimir Putin and his auxiliaries. The Nobel Peace Prize has rewarded, Friday, October 7 in Oslo, two NGOs, the Russian Memorial and the Ukrainian Center for civil freedoms, as well as the Belarusian opponent Ales Bialiatski. A highly symbolic price in the middle of the war in Ukraine.
“The Norwegian Nobel Committee wishes to honor three remarkable human rights champions, democracy and peaceful coexistence in the three neighboring Belarus, Russia and Ukraine countries,” said its president Berit Reiss-Andersen.
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This year, 343 names were candidates, or 251 individuals and 92 organizations. The war in Ukraine and its ravages dominating international news since the beginning of the year, the Nobel Committee could hardly have disregarded it.
“It is likely that we will have a price which in one way or another will point in the direction of Ukraine,” said the director of the Oslo Peace Research Institute on Thursday , Henrik Urdal, at the NRK radio microphone. The Belarusian opponents svetlana tsikhanovskaïa and Russian navalny, scratching hairs of the Kremlin and one of his very rare allies in the conflict were thus eligible in his eyes in the conflict.
Or the International Court of Justice (CIJ) of The Hague which had ordered in March the immediate judgment of the Russian offensive, even the High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) of the UN, to the extent where hostilities have moved millions of people.
were also mentioned actors who document alleged war crimes, such as the International Criminal Court (ICC), which also has its headquarters in The Hague, or the Bellingcat investigation site.
The chances of the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, who has the preference of bookmakers were, on the other hand, considered as less as long as the veil of war is not lifted.
Other Nobel observers, however, leaned for a prize going to the climate cause, an area where all the indicators are red. Evoked as a Nobélisable for several years despite her young age (19), the Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg could have prevailed with, perhaps, her movement Fridays for future, the naturalist and British journalist David Pantaloch or others activists.
The peace prize – the only Nobel to be awarded to Oslo, the other disciplines being in Stockholm – had crowned two champions of press and information freedom last year, the Philippine journalist Maria Résa and her Russian colleague Dmitri Mouratov.
Monday, the Nobel of Medicine opened the ball by crowning the Swedish Svante Pääbo, father of the man of Denisova and discoverer of the DNA of the Neanderthal man.
that of Physics rewarded on Tuesday French Alain Aspect, the Austrian Anton Zeilinger and the American John Clause for their discoveries on the revolutionary mechanism of “quantum entanglement”, spinning this improbable phenomenon of quantum mechanics to Albert Einstein himself.
Wednesday is a trio, the Americans Carolyn Bertozzi and Barry Sharpless jointly with the Danish Morten Meldal, who was crowned in chemistry for “the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry”.
and Thursday, Annie Ernaux, notably author of the empty cupboards and the years, is the sixteenth French writer to receive, since 1901, the Nobel Literature endowed with 8 million crowns (around 740,000 euros), eight years after Patrick Modiano, the first French author and the seventeenth woman – she succeeds the Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, distinguished in 2021.
The Nobel season will end next Monday with the economy prize, added in 1969 to the five traditional prizes planned in the testament of Alfred Nobel.