In Ukraine, the decision by the Oslo Nobel Committee to split this year's Nobel Peace Prize equally between recipients from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine has caused mixed feelings.
One can understand that, after all, Russia, with the support of Belarus, is waging a brutal war against Ukraine.
And it is not without reason that many there feel that this war was also possible because of the acceptance of the Russian claim that Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians are essentially one people in Western European societies and political elites.
The lack of understanding for the claims involved is one of the reasons why the aggressive policies of the Putin regime were not recognized clearly enough in the key Western European capitals.
Under these circumstances, it is painful for Ukrainians to feel that they are being lumped together with Russians again by a respected Western European institution.
Nevertheless, the decision of the Oslo Nobel Committee is good.
In the formulation of his justification there is nothing of the Great Russian myth of the "one people".
And it has recognized Nobel Prize-worthy individuals and organizations.
In Russia, nobody has worked as consistently as "Memorial" against the distortions of history, with which the Putin regime wants to give the appearance of greater legitimacy to internal oppression and external aggression.
Ales Byalyatski has been unflinchingly opposed to the Lukashenko dictatorship since the beginning of it.
The fact that he is in prison today is also due to the fact that Putin saved the Belarusian regime in 2020.
And Ukraine's "Civil Liberties Center" is a shining example of the democratic Ukraine that Putin wants to crush.
All three have one thing in common: they stand for the victims of the Russian regime and the credible resistance against it.