The Staatsschauspiel theater in Dresden said on April 4 that the 2024 Dresden Peace Prize will be posthumously awarded to Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny, who died in prison in the Russian Arctic in February while serving a 19-year prison term on charges his supporters and many governments consider to have been politically motivated. Navalny's widow, Yulia Navalnaya, will receive the award at a ceremony in the theater on May 12. The prize is given to individuals who have made contributions to peace and international understanding. Navalny will be the third Russian among its laureates after Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and former Soviet officer Stanislav Petrov, who played a key role in the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Idel.Realities, click here.
Navalny To Be Posthumously Awarded Dresden Peace Prize
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