Four American Jews received a prestigious grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. This is 46-year-old Marina Rustow, a Princeton University historian who studies Jewish life in the Middle East during the Middle Ages. Professor of Brooklyn College, 36-year-old writer Ben Lerner, ...
The 67th Emmy 2015 television awards ceremony took place in the United States. As expected, the series “Games of Thrones” received the most awards, winning twelve awards at once - this is a record number of awards in the entire history of the ceremony (however, eight of them are “technical”...
Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was posthumously awarded the American Liberty Award, awarded annually by the International Republican Institute in Washington. The prize for Nemtsov was received by his colleague, deputy chairman of the PARNAS party, Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr. “As a political leader, Boris Nemtsov has always stood apart. He always said...
The daughter of Russian oppositionist Boris Nemtsov, who was killed in February, Zhanna, said that she would donate seven hundred thousand euros to charity and support of independent journalism in the Eastern Partnership countries. On Tuesday, Nemtsova received the Lech Walesa Solidarity Prize, which is awarded by the Polish government for outstanding...
The television version of the Okean Elzy concert, which was broadcast live for 3,5 hours on the 1+1 TV channel on August 24, 2014, received the Silver Screen Award at the US International Film & Video Festival. In total, the festival received more than 1000 applications from…
Brothers Alexey and Oleg Navalny were awarded a prestigious human rights award from the organization “Platform of European Memory and Conscience”. “The prize is awarded to people who oppose totalitarianism, defending the ideas of democracy, the rule of law and human rights. The purpose of the award is to draw attention to fighters against anti-democratic regimes...
Dmitry Kaminsky, senior partner at Hong Kong-based venture capital fund Deep Knowledge Ventures, has promised a million dollars to anyone who can live to be 123 years old. Currently, scientists call the age of 120 years as the limit for the duration of human life. The oligarch believes that ongoing research in the field ...
The multimedia blog My Grandmother, the Regime and Me, in which women from six countries tell their journalistic grandchildren about their lives under dictatorship, has won the 2015 CNN Journalist Award, which will be presented in London on March 24. A Belarusian woman also took part in the project...