The day the Russian president, Vladimir Putin turns 70 and that the Russian invasion of Ukraine reaches 226 days, The Nobel Foundation and the UN Human Rights Council decided to send him several messages about the lack of respect for civil rights in his country and in Belarus.
(Also read: Nobel Peace Prize for Russian and Ukrainian human rights defenders)
The Belarusian Ales Bialiatski and the Russian organizations Memorial and the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties will receive the Award Nobel Peace Prize 2022 for his criticism of power and “the denunciation of crimes against humanity,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee, based in Oslo, announced this Friday.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee “wishes to honor three outstanding champions of human rights, democracy and peaceful coexistence in neighboring Belarus, Russia and Ukraine,” it said in announcing the names of the laureates.
The Russian organization Memorialwhich was liquidated in December 2021 by Putin-led Russiahas dedicated the last 30 years to investigating both the Soviet political repressions up to 1991 as well as denouncing human rights abuses in post-Soviet Russia.
Bialiatski “was one of the initiators of the democratic movement that emerged in Belarus in the mid-1980s. He has dedicated his life to promoting democracy and peaceful development in his country of origin,” the committee said.
As for the Center for Civil Liberties, it was founded to promote human rights and democracy in Ukraine, “has become an important source for documenting Russian war crimes” and “plays a pioneering role in holding the guilty to account.” “.
NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg congratulated the winners this Friday and highlighted that “the right to speak truth to power is fundamental to free and open societies.”
Putin’s birthday also coincided with the approval in the UN Human Rights Council of the creation of the figure of an independent expert to investigate and monitor the human rights situation in Russia, where repression has been denounced widespread and the violation of various civil liberties.
According to the UN, the recent Russian exit from the European Court of Human Rights left the citizens of that country without the possibility of resorting to an international instance of justice to achieve respect for their human rights if they are denied in national courts. .
70th birthday
Putin’s age of 70 today reached his lowest point since he took power on the last day of the 20th century. Although he assures that his destiny is to direct the designs of the Kremlin and combat the hegemony of the West, he has lost popularity and is increasingly isolated, both inside and outside his country.
According to Guennadi Gudkov, a former Russian deputy exiled in Bulgaria, “there are cracks in the Putin system. And it is not an assumption.”
“The problem is that any public show of discontent can lead to a prison sentence or ‘physical liquidation,'” he says.
Putin has received some congratulations, including that of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, who has praised his “exceptional” leadership and his “firm will”, as well as his campaign in Ukraine.
Cyril, the highest hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, assured that the Russian president was put in power by Godwhile the president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, recalled that the Russian president’s birthday coincides with the festivity of the Virgen del Rosario, of which he said he was sure “is guiding his steps, his work, his intelligence and sensitivity.”
The war continues in Ukraine, after completing 226 days of invasion. The kyiv government has recovered 500 square kilometers of territory in the Kherson region so far this October, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said tonight.
“Since October 1, more than half a thousand square kilometers of territory and dozens of settlements have been freed from the fake Russian referendum and stabilized in the Kherson region alone,” he said in his usual evening speech.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian Defense Minister, Oleksii Reznikov, appealed to the Russian troops not to waste time and save Russia from the tragedy and his Army of humiliation.
But the Russian bombings and deaths continue: the death toll from the missile attack launched on Thursday by Russian forces in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhia now rises to eleven.
According to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SE), rescue teams removed the bodies of eight people from the rubble today, adding to the three that were recovered on Thursday.
Russian military forces attacked Zaporizhia again today using Iranian drones, according to the complaint by the head of the Regional Military Administration of this city in southern Ukraine, Oleksandr Starukh.
EFE
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