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<DIV dir=ltr class=gmail_attr>От: <B dir=auto class=gmail_sendername>Right
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,Times,serif">Russian
environmentalist Vladimir Slivyak receives 2021
Right Livelihood Award</SPAN></H1>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm"><B><SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">STOCKHOLM
- <A
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target=_blank>Vladimir Slivyak</A>, one of
Russia’s most successful environmentalists, is
among the recipients of the 2021 Right
Livelihood Award for spearheading grassroots
campaigns against environmentally damaging
practices for
decades.</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></B></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">Founded in
1980, the <A
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target=_blank>Right Livelihood Award</A> honours
and supports courageous people solving global
problems. It comes with a cash prize of 1
million SEK (around 100,000 EUR or 115,000 USD)
and long-term support to highlight and expand
Laureates’ work.</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">As
co-chairman and co-founder of Ecodefense, one of
Russia’s leading environmental organisations,
Slivyak has worked extensively on reducing
environmental risks, mitigating the climate
crisis and promoting renewable energy in Russia.
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">With some
of the world’s largest oil, gas and coal
reserves, Russia is among the world’s top
exporters of fossil fuels. As such, it has
routinely undermined international climate
negotiations.</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">Slivyak
has shown that grassroots campaigns can
effectively challenge environmentally harmful
projects even if they are backed by a powerful
government such as Russia’s. He has stopped
projects related to the exploitation of fossil
fuels, the use of nuclear power and the shipment
of radioactive waste from
abroad.</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">Right
Livelihood’s jury said that Slivyak is receiving
the Right Livelihood Award “for his defence of
the environment and for helping to ignite
grassroots opposition to the coal and nuclear
industries in Russia.”</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">“I’ve
spent my life in the environmental movement, and
it’s really a big honour for me to get an award
like this,” Slivyak said. “The Right Livelihood
Award provides more resources for the
environmental and human rights protection work
that my organisation is
leading.”</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">“Vladimir
Slivyak is a pioneering environmental activist
and co-founder of the prominent Russian
environmental NGO Ecodefense,” said Ole von
Uexkull, Executive Director at Right
Livelihood.</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">“Working
in Russia, one of the world’s largest exporters
of oil, gas and coal, Slivyak has shown that
grassroots mobilisation can stop environmentally
harmful projects, even in the face of powerful
geopolitical interests. Slivyak and Ecodefense
are successfully continuing their work despite
harassment by Russia’s authoritarian
government,” von Uexkull
added.</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">The other
2021 Right Livelihood Laureates
are:</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">Cameroonian
women’s and girls’ rights activist <A
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person to receive the Award from
Cameroon,</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">Canadian
Indigenous rights defender <A
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and</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>
<LI style="MARGIN: 0cm"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">the Indian
organisation <A
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target=_blank>Legal Initiative for Forest and
Environment (LIFE).</A></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">+41 78 333
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif"><U>Short
biography</U></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">Vladimir
Slivyak is one of Russia’s most committed and
knowledgeable environmentalists, who has been
spearheading important grassroots campaigns
against environmentally damaging practices for
decades. He has stopped projects related to the
exploitation of fossil fuels, the use of nuclear
power and coal, and the shipment of radioactive
waste from abroad.</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">As
co-chairman and co-founder of Ecodefense, one of
Russia’s leading environmental organisations for
decades, Slivyak has worked extensively on
reducing environmental risks, mitigating the
climate crisis and promoting renewable energy in
Russia.</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm"><SPAN
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style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">Led by
Slivyak, Ecodefense was the first environmental
group in Russia to start an anti-coal campaign
in 2013, which helped to empower local
communities suffering from the impacts of coal
mining and transportation. Connecting local
communities around the country and information
sharing led to a rapid growth of anti-coal
protests in various parts of
Russia.</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">Slivyak
has also opposed Russia’s promotion of nuclear
energy both at home and abroad. These enormous
successes have proven that even in authoritarian
Russia, grassroots activities can effectively
challenge government-backed
projects.</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm"> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">In recent
years, Slivyak and Ecodefense have been targeted
by Russian authorities for their work. However,
Slivyak has stayed the course heartened by the
growing influence of young climate activists.
Standing with them, he is committed to ushering
in a cleaner and more sustainable future for
Russia and the world.</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">Place of
Birth: Kaliningrad, Russia (USSR at the
time)</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">Date of
Birth: July 30, 1973</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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