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fredag, december 10, 2010

Russia: Julian Assange Should Get Nobel Prize

Russia has lashed out at the U.S., saying the WikiLeaks founder shouldn't be going to jail ? he should be getting a Nobel Prize.

Russia has suggested that Julian Assange should be awarded the Nobel peace prize, in an unexpected show of support from Moscow for the jailed WikiLeaks founder.

In what appears to be a calculated dig at the US, the Kremlin urged non-governmental organisations to think seriously about "nominating Assange as a Nobel Prize laureate".
"Public and non-governmental organisations should think of how to help him," the source from inside president Dmitry Medvedev's office told Russian news agencies. Speaking in Brussels, where Medvedev was attending a Russia-EU summit yesterday , the source went on: "Maybe, nominate him as a Nobel Prize laureate." /The Guardian
Read more:  http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/09/julian-assange-nobel-peace-prize

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