Ukrainian, Russian Nobel Peace winners slam Putin's 'insane' war

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Natalia Pinchuk, representing her husband, the activist Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, Jan Rachinsky, representing the Russian organisation Memorial and Oleksandra Matviichuk, representing the Ukrainian organisation Center for Civil Liberties (CCL) received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, December 10, 2022 [Rodrigo Freitas/NTB/via Reuters]

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Rebuke to Putin

The triple peace prize award was seen as a strong rebuke to Russian President Vladimir Putin, not only for his action in Ukraine but for the Kremlin’s crackdown on domestic opposition and its support for Lukashenko’s brutal repression of dissenters

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Jan Rachinsky of Memorial said in his speech at the ceremony that “today’s sad state of civil society in Russia is a direct consequence of its unresolved past.”

He particularly denounced the Kremlin’s attempts to denigrate the history, statehood and independence of Ukraine and other ex-Soviet nations, saying that it “became the ideological justification for the insane and criminal war of aggression against Ukraine”.

“One of the first victims of this madness was the historical memory of Russia itself,” Rachinsky said. “Now, the Russian mass media refer to the unprovoked armed invasion of a neighbouring country, the annexation of territories, terror against civilians in the occupied areas, and war crimes as justified by the need to fight fascism.”

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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/12/10/ukrainian-russian-nobel-peace-winners-slam-putins-insane-war