“On behalf of the American people, I congratulate Ales Byalyatsky from Belarus, the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties and the Russian organization Memorial * on this well-deserved award,” the White House press service quotes him as saying.
The American leader noted that the laureates have been tirelessly fighting for human rights and fundamental freedoms for many years.
In 2021, the Russian journalist, editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta Dmitry Muratov and Filipino journalist Maria Ressa became Nobel Peace Prize laureates.
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to French writer Annie Ernault.
On October 5, the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for "the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry".
The winners were the Americans Caroline Bertozzi and Barry Sharpless, as well as the Dane Morten Meldal.
* The international public organization "International historical, educational, charitable and human rights society "Memorial" is included in the register of NGOs acting as a foreign agent, by decision of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation dated 04.10.2016.