The Nobel Foundation withdrew the invitation to the Russian Ambassador to present the prizes

The decision to invite representatives of Russia and Belarus to the Nobel Day at the foundation was announced the day before. Now the invitations have been withdrawn, explaining this as a “violent reaction in Sweden” The Russian Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden

The Nobel Foundation withdrew invitations to ambassadors from Russia, Belarus and Iran to the awards ceremony due to "strong reaction in Sweden", follows from a statement on the organization's website.

The initial decision to invite all the ambassadors in the foundation to the ceremony was explained by the desire “to disseminate as widely as possible the values ​​and meanings that the Nobel Prize represents, for example, through a clear political message last year, when the peace prize was awarded to human rights activists from Russia and Belarus.”

However, after a "stormy reaction in Sweden" to the invitation of the Russian and Belarusian ambassadors, the organizers of the fund decided to "repeat last year's exception to the usual practice."

The decision to invite representatives of all countries that are diplomatically represented in Sweden and Norway to the Nobel Day was announced by the Nobel Foundation the day before, on September 1. Explaining the foundation's decision, the foundation's executive director , Vidar Helgesen, said the world is becoming more divided and opportunities for dialogue are shrinking. A change in approach to inviting people to fund events, he said, should have helped counter this trend.

Nobel Day is the day the Nobel Prizes are awarded, December 10, the anniversary of the death of the founder of the foundation, Alfred Nobel. According to his will, prizes in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine and literature are awarded on this day in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, and the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, the capital of Norway.

Last year, the ambassadors of Russia and Belarus were not invited to the ceremony, explaining this by the beginning of a Russian special operation in Ukraine .

On September 1, the Ministry of Justice entered Dmitry Muratov, Nobel Peace Prize winner, editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, into the register of foreign agents. Muratov, according to the Ministry of Justice, "took part in the creation and distribution of messages and materials of foreign agents to an unlimited circle of people, used foreign platforms to disseminate opinions aimed at forming a negative attitude towards the foreign and domestic policy" of the country. The editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 for "efforts to preserve freedom of thought as an indispensable condition for democracy and peace." President Vladimir Putinthen he said, answering the relevant question, that Muratov would not be declared a foreign agent if he “does not violate Russian law” and “does not give a reason for this.” “Unfortunately, I didn’t learn anything new on Knowledge Day,” Muratov told RBC.

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