It has become a trend: to award medals, prizes and awards for sentiments and opinions that tend somehow in the direction of holding the award presenters for the hip line of approach:
Has anyone put forward anything negative against Russia? Yes? It might be worthy of an award. Whether feebleminded or criminal, it was good enough for the Hannah Arendt Prize of green Boell Foundation ...
... Which has now been awarded to Nadezhda Tolokonnikowa and Maria Aljochina - although, unlike these two female "Max and Moritzen" lightning clever political philosopher and named after where it is now, no longer came out of his head shaking.
But had not even Heinrich Boell Weiland warned along with Lew Kopelew before Putin? (More ...)