Journalist and CEO of the Institute of Mass Information Oksana Romaniuk refuses to receive the German prize at the same time as the Russian

Together with her, the Johann-Philipp-Palm-Award for Freedom of Speech and the Press was to be awarded to Russian Alexei Venediktov, the founder of the Ekho Moskvy radio.

"I cannot imagine how I could physically stand on the same stage and share the same award with Venediktov. With a Kremlin official liberal, a political technologist who has repeatedly promoted Kremlin propaganda, publicly called Putin his "only boss", boasted of his ties with Lavrov, Peskov, and other functionaries, and so on," Oksana Romaniuk writes.

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