Nobel's Checkered Past Lives on With Latest Peace Prize Nominee

  • 📰 NEWSMAX
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 65 sec. here
  • 6 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 39%
  • Publisher: 71%

Nobel News

The annals of the Nobel Peace Prize have known some weird episodes. A rarely publicized fact is that one of humanity's greatest warmongers, Adolf Hitler, and arguably his greatest facilitator, Neville Chamberlain, were both nominated for the prize in 1939.

The Nobel Peace Prize : A Checkered Past

But if granting the prize to Obama for next to nothing seems perplexing, conferring it on Yasser Arafat for co-signing the calamitous Oslo Accords was positively perverse. After all, the Palestine Liberation Organization chairman maliciously misled his interlocutors, plunging his own people, never mind Israel, into decades of misery and mayhem, with his selection as a prospective Nobel laureate bringing disrepute to the lofty institution.

Vardanyan was also active in politics, using his business activities to enhance his influence. Indeed, during the years 2005-2022, through far-reaching ties with the Kremlin, he attained positions typically accessible only to individuals within the Kremlin's inner circle. According to several sources, his close ties to the Russian president earned him the nickname "Putin's wallet.

Vardanyan has also been a staunch supporter of Putin's Ukraine invasion. This led to his inclusion in the Ukrainian government's list of sanctioned individuals, due to his companies role in supporting Russian logistical war efforts.In January 2022, Vardanyan was listed as an individual that the Biden-administration was considering placing under sanctions in legislation, known as the Putin Accountability Act.

Peace Prize Vardanyan Putin

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.
We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 16. in US

United States Latest News, United States Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Peter Higgs Dies at 94Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the so-called 'God particle' that helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang, has died at age 94, the University of Edinburgh said.
Source: trtworld - 🏆 101. / 63 Read more »

Peter Higgs, Nobel Prize-winning physicist who predicted the Higgs boson, dies at 94Stephanie Pappas is a contributing writer for Live Science, covering topics ranging from geoscience to archaeology to the human brain and behavior.
Source: LiveScience - 🏆 538. / 51 Read more »

UK Nobel Prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs dies age 94Physicist Peter Higgs, whose theory of an undetected particle in the universe changed science and was vindicated by a Nobel prize-winning discovery half a century later, has died aged 94, the University of Edinburgh said on Tuesday.
Source: cnnbrk - 🏆 393. / 55 Read more »

Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Peter Higgs Dies at 94Peter Higgs, the physicist who proposed the existence of the 'God particle' that explained the formation of matter after the Big Bang, has passed away at the age of 94.
Source: CBS21NEWS - 🏆 304. / 63 Read more »

Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Peter Higgs Dies at 94Peter Higgs, the physicist who proposed the existence of the Higgs boson particle, has passed away at the age of 94. Higgs won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013 for his groundbreaking work.
Source: ABC - 🏆 471. / 51 Read more »

British Physicist Peter Higgs, Nobel Prize Winner for Higgs Boson Theory, Dies at 94British physicist Peter Higgs, known for his theory of the Higgs boson particle, has passed away at the age of 94. Higgs' groundbreaking work helped explain the concept of mass in the Universe, earning him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013.
Source: KJNBNews - 🏆 526. / 51 Read more »