This year's NobelPeace Prize goes to the human rights activist Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, the Ukrainianorganization Center for Civil Liberties and the Russian "Memorial".
Ales Bialiatski is a Belarusian oppositionist, chairman of the human rights center "Vyasna". He was arrested in July 2020, designated as a political prisoner.
The public organization Center for Civil Liberties (CRC) was established on May 30, 2007 and is located in Kyiv. Its mission is to promote the values of human rights, democracy and solidarity in Ukraine and Eurasia for the real affirmation of the principle of human dignity.
The “Memorial” International Historical, Educational, Human Rights and Charitable Society is a non-governmental organization established to study political repression in the USSR. In December 2021, the Russian authorities liquidated the Russian legal entities Memorial International and the Memorial Human Rights Center.
Representatives of the organizations announced that they will both continue their work without being legal entities.
The civil association BOEC has announced the alleged discovery of a site linked to the Russian private military company Wagner near the Bulgarian village of Kladnitsa in Pernik region.
Bulgarian MEP Radan Kanev said he raised concerns within the EPP group about Bulgaria’s prime minister signing the so-called Charter of the “Board of Peace,” which he described as a personal international structure linked to Donald Trump.
His Holiness Patriarch Daniil, the Bulgarian Patriarch and Metropolitan of Sofia, led a Patriarchal Divine Liturgy at the Russian church-courtyard “St. Nicholas the Wonderworker of Myra” to mark the 10th anniversary of the canonization of Saint Seraphim (
A recent survey by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) shows that Ukrainian public opinion remains largely opposed to conceding territory in the ongoing conflict with Russia, with nuanced views on the potential end of the war and military
World » Ukraine| February 2, 2026, Monday // 13:31
A Russian drone attack on a company bus transporting civilian mine workers in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast has killed at least 12 people and injured 16 others, Ukrainian authorities and the energy company DTEK reported on February 1
World » Ukraine| February 2, 2026, Monday // 09:40
Ukrainian MP Maryana Bezuhla sent a direct message to Bulgarians who support Russia, urging them to witness the reality on the ground in Ukraine for themselves
World » Ukraine| January 28, 2026, Wednesday // 16:48
According to POLITICO, the long-delayed Future Combat Air System (FCAS) being developed by France, Germany and Spain is now widely seen by officials in Paris and Berlin as nearing its end.
A Hong Kong court on Monday sentenced pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison over national security offences, a move rights groups condemned as “effectively a death sentence” and emblematic of the city’s shrinking press freedoms.
Keir Starmer is facing a critical moment in his leadership as he seeks to reassert authority over the Labour Party following the resignation of his closest political adviser, Morgan McSweeney.
Sinisa Karan has been confirmed as the new president of Republika Srpska following a repeat early election held to replace the banned Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, according to final results.
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