When he saw her calling him from Norway, thoughtthat it’s some kind of spam. In fact, Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov was telephoned by the Norwegian Nobel Committee on Friday morning. He told him that he and his Filipino colleague Maria Ress had received the Nobel Peace Prize this year.
It is exceptional that the Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded to journalists, but the Committee commends their efforts “to protect freedom of expression, which is a condition for democracy and lasting peace”.
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Dmitry Muratov is the editor-in-chief of one of the most experienced newspapers in the world – the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta. They became well-known abroad when their journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in 2006.
However, Muratov, who has been the editor-in-chief of the Novaya Gazeta newspaper for 24 years, has lost six colleagues during that time. He says about them as war victims.
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As he mentioned in 2007, as the first member of the editorial office, the assassins of reporter Igor Domnikov were killed. “They beat him to death with hammers at the entrance to his apartment building.” Muratov said.
In 2003, Muratov’s deputy and best friend, journalist and politician Yuri Shchekochichin, died. He was also a member of the anti-corruption committee at the Russian State Duma.
Muratov believes they poisoned him.
“He was a man who had fought corruption all his life. During the week, we saw all of his skin peel off. In a week, he became a young man
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