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Russian Nobel laureate 'told to turn down prize'
A Russian human rights activist has told the 大象传媒 that he was ordered to turn down the Nobel Peace Prize by the Russian authorities.
Yan Rachinsky is from Memorial, one of three joint winners of this year's accolade, alongside the Ukrainian human rights organisation Center for Civil Liberties, and Ales Bialiatski, who is in prison in Belarus.
Mr Rachinsky chose to accept the award and told Stephen Sackur of 大象传媒's HARDtalk: "In today's Russia no-one's personal safety is guaranteed".
For more than 30 years, Memorial worked on uncovering the fates of the victims of Soviet political repression. It also exposed human rights abuses in present-day Russia, before being forced to close.
