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Maria Ressa and Dmitri Muratov
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The Nobel Peace Prize 2021 goes to the Filipino journalist Maria Ressa and the Russian journalist Dmitri Muratov.
The Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee announced on Friday in Oslo.
Both will be honored for their commitment to freedom of the press.
Without a free press, there would be no democracy, said Berit Reiss-Andersen, explaining the committee's decision.
Muratov had campaigned for the freedom of the press in Russia for decades and under increasingly difficult circumstances, it said.
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