Today Belarusian Journalists to Be Awarded Dzmitry Zavadski’s Prize :: Charter'97 :: News

This year the prize of the Russian TV channel ORT for professionalism and courage to be awarded to a correspondent of “Komsomolskaya Pravda v Belorussii” Aleh Ulevich, an editor-in-chief of the newspaper “Nasha Niva” Andrei Dynko and a press photographer Yuliya Darashkevich. At an award-giving ceremony Pavel Sharamet (Sheremet) is to represent the Russian TV channel. “This year is to be the seventh award given by the First channel and the Belarusian Association of Journalists. For the first time an award is given by Dzmitry Zavadski’s foundation established by his relatives and friends,” Pavel Sharamet told in an interview to the Radio Svaboda.

“Dzmitry Zavadski’s prize is very important for journalists of the First channel as a memory about our friend abducted in Belarus. We take this prize seriously and responsibly. We try it be different every year. I am sure that the tradition to give best Belarusian journalists Zavadski’s prize would be continued in the future,” Sharamet told.

The prize was founded 6 years ago by journalists of the First TV channel, when the colleagues of the abducted TV cameraman proposed to give a prize for courage to Belarusian journalists, Telegraf informs.

The editor-in-chief of the “Nasha Niva” Andrei Dynko believes that this prize is important not only for journalists, but for their readers as well. “It’s not simply a prize for me or journalists of or newspaper. Today it’s a prize for our readers, those three thousand families who have donated for publishing the newspaper. They are supporting the “Nashs Niva” by their labour”.