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Russian Politicians, Experts, Rights Activists Puzzled By EU’s Nobel Prize

October 15, 2012 JRL Russia List Europe, EU

(RIA Novosti – October 12, 2012) Russian politicians, experts and human rights activists have shown rare unity in their opinion of the Nobel Committee’s decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union. Some of them believe that the award was intended to show political support to the organization, which is going through difficult times, others think it […]

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Moscow Helsinki Group chairman regrets that Nobel Peace Prize went to EU

October 12, 2012 JRL Russia List Politics, Government, Protests, Elections

(Interfax – October 12, 2012) Lyudmila Alekseyeva, the head of the Moscow Helsinki Group, believes that the decision to award the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union was wrong. “If it were awarded to political prisoners in Iran, it would be clearer to me. I wonder how they will photograph the EU as the Nobel Prize winner and […]

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