Musikerne Mathias Eick, Andreas Ulvo og Mats Eilertsen åpner prisutdelingen med fremføring av verket “Oslo”. Statssekretær Gry Larsen i Utenriksdepartementet holder gratulasjonstalen til prisvinnerne. På vegne av vinnerne holder Alexander Golts, politisk kommentator og sjefredaktør i nettavisen Ezhenedelny Zhurnal, pristalen “Foreign Policy of Russia at Vladimir Putin’s third term”.

Presseprisene for 2013 går til:

Journalisten Elena Kostyuchenko (Moskva, Russland)
Journalisten Alexander Golts (Moskva, Russland)
Ukeavisen Yakutsk Vecherniy (Jakutsk, Russland)
Journalisten Sergey Leschenko (Kiev, Ukraina)
Journalisten Tahmina Tagizade (Ganja, Aserbajdsjan)
Fotojournalisten Mehman Huseynov (Baku, Aserbajdsjan)

Program for arrangementet:

The Fritt Ord Prize: Free Press of Russia
and The Gerd Bucerius Prize: Free Press of Eastern Europe

Venue: The Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo
Date and time: Thursday, 20 June, 12.00 h.

“Oslo”
Mathias Eick, Andreas Ulvo, Mats Eilertsen
Composer: Mathias Eick

Welcome
Grete Brochmann, Vice Chair, Fritt Ord Foundation

Speech of congratulations to the prize laureates
Gry Larsen, State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

“Answer me”
Elvira Nikolaisen, Mathias Eick, Andreas Ulvo, Mats Eilertsen
Composers: Gerhard Winkler and Fred Rauch

Freedom of the press is more important than ever in today’s world!
Michael Göring, Executive Director, ZEIT-Stiftung

Address on behalf of the jury
Falk Bomsdorf, jury member

Awarding of the 2013 Press Prizes to
the journalist Elena Kostyuchenko (Moscow; Russia)
the journalist Alexander Golts (Moscow, Russia)
the weekly newspaper Yakutsk Vecherniy (Jakutsk, Russia)
the journalist Sergey Leschenko (Kiev, Ukraine)
the journalist Tahmina Tagizade (Ganja, Azerbaijan)
the photojournalist Mehman Huseynov (Baku, Azerbaijan)
Stefanie Schiffer, jury member

Traditional arrangements from Iran
Mathias Eick, Javid Afsari Rad, Mats Eilertsen, Andreas Ulvo
Composer: Javid Afsari Rad

Speech on behalf of the Laureates
Foreign Policy of Russia at Vladimir Putin’s third term
Alexander Golts, political commentator and acting editor-in-chief of the online newspaper Ezhenedelny Zhurnal

“I concentrate on you”
Elvira Nikolaisen, Mathias Eick, Javid Afsari Rad, Mats Eilertsen, Andreas Ulvo
Composer: Cole Porter

Musicians:
Elvira Nikolaisen, vocal
Mathias Eick, trumpet
Mats Eilertsen, contrabass
Andreas Ulvo, piano
Javid Afsari Rad, santur

Buffet lunch