I see a lot of discussion about dissatisfaction among Ukrainians with the Nobel Committee's decision to award the Peace Prize to human rights defenders from three countries at once. I will try to explain my view of the problem. 🧵1/7 #NobelPeacePrize 
Many of those who are now criticising actually support the awarding of this Prize to both #Memorial and #AlesBialiatski. Their work and fight for human rights and freedoms in their countries deserves enormous respect, there is no doubt! Ukrainians do not see this as unfair. 2/7
The problem lies elsewhere. A more global understanding of the situation. Ukrainians no longer want the world to perceive them in a direct context with Russia and Belarus. 3/7
Despite all the merits of the laureates from Russia and Belarus, Ukrainians do not want the struggle for human rights in the three countries to be perceived equally. 4/7
In Belarus and Russia human rights defenders are fighting for the rights of people in dictatorships. And in Ukraine they document the war crimes of these dictatorships, because missiles fly to Ukraine from Belarus and Russia. 5/7
Ukrainians are unhappy because the West is still pushing them into the format of fraternal friendship between the three nations. Ukrainians don't see themselves in this scheme anymore, while the West is still living in this paradigm. This is the problem. 6/7
Personally, I have great respect for the work of Bialatski and Memorial, and am glad that it was they who were awarded Nobel Prize and not the other candidates from their countries. 7/7
You definitely have to listen what Oleksandra Matviichuk, who founded the Centre for Civil Liberties that was today awarded Nobel Peace Prize for Ukraine, has to say (in English) 👉t.me/suspilnenews/1…
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