The Russian President Vladimir Putin has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize by a Russian writer Sergey Komkov.
The President Putin, was nominated for the prestigious award by a group of Russian writers, led by Sergey Komkov.
Nominations can be submitted by anyone who meets the Nobel Committee’s criteria, which includes lawmakers anywhere in the world, professors and academic groups.
●Kremlin did not submit Putin’s nomination for Nobel Peace Prize
However many suspected Kremlin was behind this nomination, the Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov cleared the air by saying Kremlin did not nominate the President.
“You all know that completely different people are nominated for this award, this is an initiative of those submitting the nomination. In this case, [the nomination was submitted by] the aforementioned writer,” the spokesman said, commenting on the nomination submitted by writer Sergey Komkov.
“If this decision is made great, if not, it’s no problem as well,” Peskov said.
● Rejection Behind Could Be
The nominations comes as one of Putin’s
most prominent criticis opposition leader
Alexie Navanly, recovering from poisoning with a Soviet era nerve agent. Independent laboratories in Germany, France and Sweden
have confirmed that he was poisoned with
Novihock, a toxin that has also been used against other opponents of the regime. The Kremlin has rejected the claim that Navalny
was poisoned in Russia.
●American President Donalt Trump also nominate
American President Donalt Trump was nominated by Christian Tybring-Gjedde, an ultra-conservative member of the Norwegian Parliament, who praised Trump for brokering a deal between the UAE and Israel.
Putin was also nominated for the prize in 2013 and joins US President Donald Trump on this year’s list of nominees; the latter was nominated by Christian Tybring-Gjedde – a right wing Norwegian politician – for his work in brokering a deal between Israel and the UAE.
●Norwegian Nobel Committee anyone can be nominee who full fill the criteria of the nomes
“The Norwegian Nobel Committee has no say in submissions that arrives according to the criteria, strictly in who is actually awarded the prize in October,” the committee says. “To simply be nominated is therefore not an endorsement or extended honour to imply affiliation with the Nobel Peace Prize or its related institutions.”
More than 300 people were nominated for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize, which the Nobel Committee makes clear should not be mistaken for an honor, in it of itself. Nobel Committee will announce this year’s Nobel Laureates on October 9.