Editor-in-Chief of the Pskovskaya Gubernya (The
Pskov Province) paper and leader of the Pskov branch of YABLOKO
Lev Schlosberg became won the Golden Pen of Russia award -
the highest professional award of the Russian Journalists
Union. It is already the second year that members of the YABLOKO
party win this prestigious award. Last year the winner of
the award was member of the YABLOKO’s Bureau and a columnist
of the popular Novaya Gazeta paper Boris Vishnevsky.
The honorary title of the Golden Pen of Russia is awarded
to Russian journalists for outstanding creative achievements
by merit or for individual publications demonstrating professional
excellence, civil position and personal courage of the author.
The title is awarded by the Secretariat of the Russian Journalists
Union.
Lev Schlosberg was awarded the title the Golden Pen of Russia
for a series of publications about the death of the Pskov
paratroopers under the Chechen village of Ulus-Kert on February
29 - March 1, 2000. The award was presented to him by Alexander
Zharov, Deputy Minister of Communications and Mass Media,
and Alexander Gorbenko, Deputy Mayor of Moscow.
"I would like to hope that this Golden Pen will help
other journalists, those who tale up the responsibility to
conduct a full and complete [journalistic] investigation,
so that they would have the strength and courage to establish
the truth," Schlosberg added.
The Golden Pen was also awarded to Irina Khalip, Novaya Gazeta
correspondent in Minsk, Belarus (who was imprisoned in Belarus
after presidential elections there), journalist Dmitry Bykov,
Alexander Arkhangelsky, chief editor of the Tribuna newspaper
Rafael Huseynov and Sergei Kaledin from Ogonyok
The ceremony ended in a minute of silence in memory of murdered
journalists. Among dozens of journalists murdered in Russia
for their professional activities killed and whose portraits
were displayed on the screen, there were members of the YABLOKO
party - Larissa Yudina, Editor-in-Chief of the Sovetskaya
Kalmykia Today paper and Yuri Shchekochikhin, deputy editor
of Novaya Gazeta.
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