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Roughly translated by Google and edited by me to make it understandable. I actually don't know either this guy or the magazine.
Firstly, I want to thank the former editor in chief of "Lenta.ru" Timchenko and eternal chief editor of "Echo of Moscow" Alexei Venediktov for giving me the opportunity in our not freedom times to objectively describe events in Ukraine.
Secondly, I regard this award not as personal, but as a collective to all my colleagues who were and still are in Donbass, who risk their lives there.
And first of all Andrey Stenin who deserves this award much more than I do, not only because he's left there forever in his kevlar vest and I'm standing here in the silly tuxedo.
Thirdly, I do find it strange to stand here, because all the others receive an award for something good: I did not open the restaurant, did not star in a movie, I am not a trendsetter, I didn't make a sensational investigation, I'm just describing what is happening in Ukraine .
And it would be better if nothing happened there.
It would be better if people didn't die on the Maidan, Russia didn't annex the Crimea, you would have continued to have French oysters, and the Donbass hasn't gone to war and civilians didn't die.
I hope that Vladimir Putin will not send any more Russian soldiers and weapons to the Donbass, the Ukrainian army will not bomb cities, and Russian TV channels will not incite hatred and lie on TV and in the following year the award will get a wonderful film critic Dolin or my good friend and a great reporter Egor Mostovshikov.
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