Mykola Semena awarded the Pavel Sheremet Journalism Award
Journalist Mykola Semena was awarded the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum’s Pavel Sheremet Journalism Award in absentia in Brussels on November 28.
Semena contributes to RFE/RL’s Krym.Realii (Crimea.Realities) website. He was charged in April 2016 under the Russian criminal code for allegedly violating Russia’s territorial integrity after he wrote an article expressing the view that Crimea, annexed by Moscow in 2014, should be returned to Ukraine.