Knight of the Year Award Goes to Journalist Covering East Ukraine from Battlefield
Zmitser Halko, BAJ member and journalist of Novy Chas newspaper, was awarded with the prize Knight of the Year.
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The prize Knight of the Year was established nine years ago, it bears the name of Yury Zakkharanka, politician and former Minister of Home Affairs of Belarus abducted in 1999.
Zmitser Halko runs a blog and writes reports for Novy Chas newspaper. The journalist is still in Eastern Ukraine, so the diploma was received by the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Aliaksei Karol. Upon receiving the award, the chief editor said that it was the journalist’s initiative to go to the hot spot. The editor praises Halko for writing well-weighed thoughts, without agitation or propaganda.