Alexander Shishlo. Six of the nominees, and among them one is collective, for the award of the European Parliament "for freedom of thought" Andrei Sakharov for 2015 submitted on the first day of the week in Brussels at a General meeting of parliamentary committees on foreign Affairs and development and of the Subcommittee for the Affairs of man.

in the list of candidates included, for example, Boris Nemtsov, who was nominated posthumously, a former employee of U.S. special services Edward Snowden, as well as the Ukrainian pilot Hope Savchenko, which the investigative Committee of Russia impute complicity In violent deprivation of life 2 Russian correspondents in the Donbass in the summer of 2014, as well as illegal crossing of border of the Russian Federation and Ukraine under the guise of a refugee.

The shortlist of three candidates for the Sakharov prize this year will be famous for fifteen of October, and the winner of the leaders of the political factions and the head of the European Parliament will announce on October 29. The awards ceremony will take place on 16 December during the plenary session of the Assembly in Strasbourg.

Prize of the European Parliament "for freedom of thought" Sakharov is awarded to individuals and organizations that have made a special contribution to the protection of human rights. Nominees for the award are nominated by parliamentary factions or groups of MPs who are required to collect in support of their candidate More than 40 signatures. The first laureates of the European Parliament Sakharov in 1988 were Nelson Mandela and the dissident of times of the USSR Anatoly Marchenko, who died in the early winter of 1986, in a Soviet prison.

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