Svetlana Gannushkina – A Worthy Nobel Laureate – Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)

The text advocates for awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Svetlana Alekseevna Gannushkina, highlighting her work with the Civic Assistance Committee and her efforts to protect refugees and migrants in Russia. It details her role in providing legal support to over 50,000 individuals and her activism in the North Caucasus and Nagorno-Karabakh. The author asserts that such an award would signal international disapproval of President Putin's undermining of human rights and civil society in Russia.

• Svetlana Alekseevna Gannushkina founded and leads the Civic Assistance Committee, which has provided training, assistance, and free legal support to over 50,000 internally displaced persons, refugees, and migrants since 1990.
• Gannushkina's work has prevented the deportation of thousands of refugees from Russia to the Caucasus, Central Asian countries, and other nations, thereby protecting dissidents from torture and imprisonment.
• Gannushkina has been active in human rights issues in Nagorno-Karabakh, where war between Armenia and Azerbaijan led to ethnic cleansing and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people.
• The author argues that awarding Gannushkina the Nobel Peace Prize would serve as a signal to President Putin regarding the international recognition of his regime's attacks on freedom of association, expression, and assembly in Russia.

APA

Engesland, B. (2016). Svetlana Gannushkina – A Worthy Nobel Laureate – Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). Peace Research Institute Oslo. https://www.prio.org/comments/188

Chicago

Engesland, Bjørn. Svetlana Gannushkina – A Worthy Nobel Laureate – Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). Peace Research Institute Oslo, 2016. https://www.prio.org/comments/188.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{engesland2016svetlana, author = {Engesland, Bjørn}, title = {{Svetlana Gannushkina – A Worthy Nobel Laureate – Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)}}, publisher = {Peace Research Institute Oslo}, year = {2016}, month = oct, url = {https://www.prio.org/comments/188}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }