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The Nobel Peace Prize ceremony has begun in Oslo. The editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta Dmitry Muratov and Filipino journalist Maria Ressa, who shared the prize in 2021, will speak at it.
He went to the podium with a speech. Muratov recalled the words of Mikhail Gorbachev, said on April 18, 1988. “There is a meeting of the Politburo. One of the Soviet ministers demands to leave troops in Afghanistan, Mikhail Gorbachev harshly interrupts him: “Stop your hawkish squawking!”.
As a result, Muratov asked why this is not a modern program for politics and journalism, which will help “to establish life without funerals.”
In addition, he stressed that the current ideologists promote “the idea of death for the Motherland, not life for the Motherland.” “But I know that wars end with the identification of soldiers and the exchange of prisoners,” he added.
And the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta also pointed out that “the world has fallen out of love with democracy” and reached out to dictatorship. According to him, there was an illusion that progress can be achieved by technology and violence, and not by observing the rights and freedoms of people. And now the authorities of a number of countries are “actively selling the idea of war.” And under the influence of the “aggressive marketing of war” people get used to the idea of its permissibility.