"Is it definitely not a" codes "?"

As a memorial scattered to different countries, they learned that they received the Nobel Prize of the World

Today, the Nobel Committee announced that the Russian human rights organization Memorial, Belarus Ales Belyatsky, who founded the human rights center “Vesna”, and the Ukrainian organization “Civil Freedom Center”, were the Nobel Prize. In Russia, several legal entities of the Memorial are liquidated by court decision and declared foreign agents, but the organization continues to work - now its employees are scattered in different countries of the world. "Cold" talked with them about how they found out that they became laureates of a prestigious award.

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" News for the first time correspond to my external environment "

Natalia Baryshnikova, producer of educational projects "International Memorial"

The news found me at the exit of the house: I was going to give the bike for repairs. But when I saw the news, I stood in the doorway for a long time. Congratulations fell on me, I constantly updated the tape.

The news that I read for the first time correspond to my external environment. I am now in Weimar, in a small Thuringian city, I have a scholarship in the Buchenwald memorial. Weimar is a very cute city, sunny, beautiful, people here are joyful and happy, live a measured good life. And now, among these funny people, I feel a similar mood.

As soon as I realized what happened, I immediately thought about my parents. They stay in Russia and do not understand why I left and what I am doing here. First of all, I selfishly thought that maybe this news would help us understand each other with them.

"I do not think that this will affect the courts in Russia"

*Ivan Shemanov *, employee of the historical "Memorial" ****

Now I live in Yerevan.

I was preparing for the working day - and suddenly one of my friends wrote me a congratulation. At first I did not believe that she was writing. Then, of course, he was very happy.

I do not think that awarding a bonus will affect the courts in Russia. Our authorities, in my opinion, are already spitting on almost everything: everything has gone too far for them. But this award is important from the point of view of popularizing the work of the Memorial, more people will learn about our work, because in fact there are not many people know about us.

I am very glad that the three organizations simultaneously received a prize - from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. As a gesture, in my opinion, is wonderful. I really support it.

*"I burst into tears" *

* Tamilla Imanova, lawyer of the Human Rights Protection Center "Memorial" *

Now I live in Poland for two cities - in Warsaw and in Gdansk.

I learned that the “memorial” was given the Nobel Prize of the world when in the morning I went to the store for bread. I suddenly wrote my old comrade who watched the online broadcast of the Nobel Prize: “Tamilla, congratulations!” I answered him that I did not understand anything, and he sent me a tweet from the official account of the Nobel Prize. I did not believe my eyes, because I did not even know that we were nominated. I burst into tears. This is a great pride, which is difficult to perceive in the moment.

I was the first to take off the news to my colleagues: "Do you generally know what happened?" After that, all the memorial chats began to be filled with messages and congratulations.

** "It is joyful that this is happening on Putin's nasty birthday" ****

* Evelina Rudenko, coordinator of the history of the "Ostarbeters", curator of exhibitions "Memorial" *

I had a German lesson, at that time my husband brought the phone with Push from Medusa that the Memorial received the Nobel Prize of the world. At first I thought it was a joke, looked at my husband and asked: "Is this definitely not a" singing "?" (A parody account with fake news. - approx. "Cold") .

Then I saw that joyful messages began to appear in the Memorial chat, and I realized that we really became laureates. Unfortunately, now we will not be able to get together - we are scattered who are where. Now I live in Hamburg, I am passing the internship in the memorial complex "Noyengamma concentration camp". The news found me here.

For us, getting a bonus is a tremendous support, a high assessment of our work. And it is very joyful that all this happens on October 7, on the day of our court (the Prosecutor General’s Office demands to invalidate the transaction on the transfer of the premises on the carriage from one legal entity to another. - Approx. “ Cold ”) , on the anniversary of the murder of Politkovskaya and on the vile birthday of Putin. Personally for us, employees, it is very important to get a prize, because more than six months have passed since the liquidation of our organization, but we continue to work. This gives us more new forces.