Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov were awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize ’for their courageous fight for freedom of expression in the Philippines and Russia,’ the chairwoman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee said.
"Free, independent and fact-based journalism serves to protect against abuse of power, lies and war propaganda," Reiss-Andersen said.
He is the first Russian to win the Nobel Peace Prize since Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev -- who himself helped set up Novaya Gazeta with the money he received from winning the award in 1990. In Moscow, Nadezhda Prusenkova, a journalist at Novata Gazeta, told Reuters staff were surprised and delighted.The Kremlin itself congratulated Muratov on the award.
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