Muratov dedicated to Nobel Prize to dead journalists

The chief editor of the New Gazette Dmitry Muratov said that the award of the Nobel Prize of the World “The merit of those who died, defending the right of people to freedom of speech”.

“I worked, was busy. I was called from the Nobel Committee, but I did not take the phone. So far I didn’t even have time to read the entire text. I’ll tell you so: this is not my merit. This is a” new newspaper “. These are those who Died, protecting the right of people to freedom of speech. Because they are not with us, they, apparently, decided that I would tell it everyone. This is Igor Domnikov, it is Yura Shchekchichin, it is Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya, this Nastya Baburova is Natasha Estemirova, it is Stas Markelov. That’s true. I think so. True. This is for them, “Muratov said in an interview with TASS.