Court of Appeal allows journalist Maria Ressa to attend Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Norway

When Soviet nuclear physicist Andrei Sakharov won the 1975 Peace Prize, his wife gave stated, said that Sakharov’s presence at the ceremony was “impossible” because of “some strange features” of their home country, the Soviet Union. (His trip to Oslo was forbidden of the Soviet government.) Instead, she continued, the Nobel laureate was “standing in the street, in the cold,” waiting for the words of his closest friend and dissident colleague. his scientist Serghey Kovalyev.