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Russia has widely believed that politicians who avoid bloodshed are weak, but it is the duty of true patriots to threaten war by receiving an award at Oslo City Hall, Muratov said.
“Influencers are actively driving the idea of war,” he said. “In the minds of some crazy geopoliticians, the war between Ukraine and Russia is no longer impossible.”
ASV officials have warned that Russia, which has concentrated its troops on the Ukrainian border, could soon invade Ukraine. Moscow says it is not going to attack.
Muratov also acknowledged that in Russia, where hundreds of journalists, the media, human rights defenders and NGOs are recognized as “foreign agents,” journalism is now going “through a very dark valley.”
“In Russia, that means ‘enemy of the people,'” Muratov said, awarding the prize to all investigative journalists, including colleagues in the Novaya Gazeta, who were killed for their work.
Muratov and Philippine journalist Maria Resa have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this year for their contribution to the fight for freedom of expression.
Resa reiterated his call for social media reform.
“Our biggest need today is the need to transform hatred and violence, the toxic sludge that travels through our ecosystem, a priority made by the American Internet company, a company that makes more money by spreading that hatred and activating our worst,” she said.
“For the United States, reform or repeal section 230, the law that positions social media as utilities,” the winner urged.
Resa and Muratov are the first journalists to receive the Nobel Prize since the German Karl von Osecki received the 1935 Prize for publications on Germany’s secret armaments program.
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