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RE:Cover Ukraine Board Member handed out the Award in the National Investigative Journalism Competition
As you know, last week Henrik Kaufholz, a journalist for Politiken and a Board Member at RE:Cover Ukraine – a peer-to-peer Journalism Project, visited Ukraine to hand the Proxy Award to the winner of the National Investigative Journalism Competition.
In his speech, he emphasized that we have both bright and dark news about Ukraine.
Among the first is that Ukrainian investigative journalism proves to all opponents of our accession to the EU that we are on the way to building a real democracy.
Among the second, of course, is the lack of good news from the front, the political games of the Hungarian Prime Minister and the difficulties in signing the next aid package from the United States.
But such investigations as the winning film “UPROOTED. How Russia Kidnapped Children from Mariupol” by Olesya Bida change the balance of bright and dark news in our favor.
The War Crimes Investigation Unit at The Kyiv Independent identified the names of Russian-controlled officials who took part in the abduction of Ukrainian children from temporarily occupied territories. They followed the stories of 32 children and their families who tried to bring them back. Pylyp Holovnya, illegally adopted by Maria Lvova-Belova, Russia’s Commissioner for Children’s Rights, was among them.
The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant against Lvova-Belova for her part in this crime.
The 1,000 euro prize was raised by a veterans’ organization of Danish journalists, so investigators have the opportunity to be supported and encouraged from abroad.