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