Congratulations to the winners of the Fritt Ord and ZEIT-Stiftungs Eastern Europe Press Prizes
The Fritt Ord Prize: Free Press Russia and the Gerd Bucerius Prize: Free Press Eastern Europe were awarded on Wednesday 24 June 2015 at noon at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo.
The prize laureates are the weekly newspaper Pskovskaya Guberniya and editor Galina Timchenko from Russia, the news agency Slidstvo.Info and the journalists Serhiy Harmash and Valentyna Samar from Ukraine, along with the online news medium Netgazeti from Georgia.
Read more about the laureates here.
Speakers and musical perfromaces, in chronological order:
Improvisation: “Song of India”
from the opera Sadko by Rimsky-Korsakov
Welcome (pdf), by Sigrun Slapgard, Foreign Reporter and Member of the Board of Trustees, Fritt Ord Foundation
Speech of congratulations to the prize laureates (pdf), by Morten Høglund, State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
A never-ending challenge? Speech by Manfred Lahnstein, Professor and Chair of the Board of Trustees, ZEIT-Stiftung
“En fermant les yeux”
from the opera Manon by Massenet
Address on behalf of the jury (pdf), by Theo Sommer, Chair of the Jury
Speeches on behalf of the Laureates,
- by Dmitrij Gnap, journalist (Ukraine)
- The main condition of freedom (pdf), by Lev Schlossberg, founder of Pskovskaya Gubernya (Russia)
“Marechiare”
by F.P. Tosti
Musicians:
Håkon Kornstad (saxophone, vocals)
Frode Haltli (accordion)
Mats Eilertsen (double bass)
