Press release, 14.03.2016

On 15 March, the sixth ceremony of the Sexist of the Year 2015 award will take place in the House of Journalists (Dom Zhurnalista) in Moscow. The event will be held with the support of YABLOKO’s Gender Faction.

The Sexist of the Year award was established by the For Feminism initiative group in 2010. The award aims at attracting public attention to the problem of sexism and fighting discrimination against women.

The winners are being determined by online voting in the nominations: “Sexist of the year, “Sexism in mass media”, “Sexism in advertising”, “Women’s statements against women”, “Antiwomen policy”.

This year among the nominees are Pavel Astakhov (Children’s right Ombudsman in Russia), Gennady Onishchenko (Assistant to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev) and others.

The aim of the award is to attract the attention of the society to the problem of sexism and initiate a special law which would guarantee the eradication of hate language in respect of women in the information space.

Online voting will be closed on 14 March.

Last year Publicist Yegor Kholmogorov was awarded the prize. Kholmogorov was nominated for open calls for physical violence against women and sparkling hatred against women. “I think when we occupy America we’ll adopt a secret law allowing the American man to hit [a woman] on the face with a fist when hearing the word “sexism”. And we’ll watch the best videos,” he wrote on his Facebook page.

The ceremony will begin at 15:00.

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