A Vilnius court is expected to sentence ex-Soviet officials for crimes against humanity. The case has rekindled debate about the final days of the USSR and renewed the ideological tug-of-war between Lithuania and Russia.
Former President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves gave the laudatory speech at a ceremony in honor of Alexei Navalny, the Russian dissident and opposition leader imprisoned by Russian authorities since early on this year and recognized by Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience. Navalny is 2021's recipient of the Knight of Freedom Award 2021. The text of Toomas Hendrik Ilves' speech marking the award and given at the Warsaw Security Forum on Wednesday evening, October 6, is as follows.
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