A “highly symbolic” Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded this year in a context of war and multiple crises. On Friday, October 7, the Prize was awarded to a trio of representatives of civil society in Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus, the main actors in the Ukrainian conflict. The award was jointly attributed to the Belarusian activist Ales Beliatski (still in prison in his country), the Russian NGO Memorial (struck by a dissolution order from the Russian authorities), and the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties...