{"id":46117,"date":"2022-09-07T15:23:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T12:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=46117"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:24:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T12:24:02","slug":"the-people-of-ukraine-and-zelensky-were-nominated-for-the-sakharov-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=46117","title":{"rendered":"The people of Ukraine and Zelensky were nominated for the Sakharov Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate . 7 . September . 2022 | Ukraine News.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The largest political faction in the European Parliament &#8211; from the European People&#8217;s Party (EPP) &#8211; nominated the people of Ukraine and President Volodymyr Zelenskyi for the Sakharov Prize this year, according to the statement of the political force .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Quote<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The EPP faction nominates the Ukrainian people and the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyi, for this year&#8217;s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought,&#8221; the message reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Details<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Member of the European Parliament, deputy head of the EPP faction for foreign affairs, Rasa Yuknyavichene, noted that &#8220;we have no doubt that the courageous people of Ukraine, led by President Volodymyr Zelensky, are worthy of receiving the Sakharov Prize this year.&#8221;&nbsp;&#8220;They continue to defend European values \u200b\u200bon the battlefield every day. I hope that our nomination will be supported by all political groups in the European Parliament,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>For reference<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought is an annual award founded in 1988 named after the famous Soviet scientist and dissident Andrei Sakharov.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is awarded to people who have made an exceptional contribution to the struggle for human rights around the world, drawing attention to human rights violations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Candidates for the prize are nominated by 40 members of the European Parliament or a parliamentary faction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The EPP faction is the largest political group in the European Parliament, with 176 members from all EU member states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<strong>Ukrgate<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate . 7 . September . 2022 | Ukraine News.\u00a0\u00a0 The largest political faction in the European Parliament &#8211; from the European People&#8217;s Party (EPP) &#8211; nominated the people of Ukraine and President Volodymyr Zelenskyi for the Sakharov Prize this year, according to the statement of the political force . Quote &#8220;The EPP faction nominates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":46129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10750,11447,16,10831],"tags":[813,996,2399,1000,1024,1064,12201],"class_list":["post-46117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-political-news","category-society","category-ukraine-news","category-war-news","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-gate","tag-ukraine-news","tag-ukrgate","tag-war","tag-zelenskyy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46135,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46117\/revisions\/46135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}