ANNUAL REPORT 2022 ACHIEVEMENTS ACHIEVEMENTS 1 On 7 October 2022, it became known that the Nobel Com- mittee had awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize to three winners — Ales Bialiatski, the Belarusian human rights activist, who is currently a po- litical prisoner in Belarus; the Centre for Civil Liberties, Ukraine’s human rights civil society organisation; and Memorial, a Russian human rights organisation (banned in Russia). Awarding the No- bel Peace Prize signified an international recognition of the Centre for Civil Liberties’ ongoing activities pursued since 2007. This is the first Nobel Prize in Ukraine’s his- tory, and the first time that the Ukrainian language was heard from the stage during the people who had worked the ofÏcial award ceremony. with us all these years. During the ofÏcial Nobel Thanks to such global Peace Prize award ceremony publications as The Guardian, held on 10 December 2022, The Financial Times Weekend Oleksandra Matviichuk, the Magazine, The New York Post, organisation’s Chair, em- and The Washington Post, phasised that the prize was the work of the Centre for awarded not only to the or- Civil Liberties became known ganisation’s team, but also to around the world. Numerous 31