M100 Sanssouci Colloquium and M100 Media Award 2023

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Roman Melnyk: Against fake news, corruption, and power abuse

Roman Melnyk is a citizen activist, political scientist, data journalist and co-founder of the Ukrainian NGO Wikipatrol, among others. He was able to bring his family, who are from Kyiv and Russia, to safety in the EU. He participated in the M100YEJ in 2014.
Twitter: @Rom_Melnyk

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, my life has changed. Before that, I worked in consulting, supporting Ukrainian politicians and international companies. I also founded a citizens’ initiative called “Wikipatrol”, which aims to fight Russian propaganda and Russian neo-imperial narratives on Wikipedia. Thanks to my experience as an editor and my years of working in the public sphere, in 2020 I founded a volunteer team with my friends to write articles about Ukraine in different languages on Wikipedia, exposing and correcting manipulations and inaccuracies.

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Olha Novikova: The war, seen backwards

Olha Novikova is from Dnipro, where she worked for a major Ukrainian newspaper. In 2015, she was a participant of the M100YEJ. Today she lives in Munich and works as an SAP security consultant for a large company.

January 2023. For several seconds I stop existing when I read the name of my hometown. A nine-storey block of flats hit by a Russian missile. We don´t have an air defense for this missile type yet. Instead of those nine storeys I see a big hole and a pile of rubble. I am petrified. It looks like any other house in my neighborhood. Those typical Soviet-era buildings, you know. We are in the East close to the frontline: there is an air raid alarm day and night for hours, constant blackouts make it impossible to use elevators, often missiles hit before the siren starts, nobody is hiding in the bomb shelter anymore. There must be people under the rubble: children, whole families. I read the name of the street and breathe out: NOT MINE.

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Anna Romandash: I hope that empathy has no expiry date

Anna Romandash is an award-winning journalist who works for CNN, Radio Free Europe, Open Government Partnership, Freedom House and Deutsche Welle, among others. She normally works as a reporter and digital policy expert focusing on sustainable media development, human rights and access to information.Now she covers the war. She participated in the M100YEJ in 2015.
Twitter: @annaromandash

I am anxious what the anniversary brings. On February 24, 2023, it will be one year since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The war, however, started a very long time ago. There was a war in Donbas and annexation of Crimea since 2014. There was hybrid warfare and propaganda campaigns. There were history manipulations and normalization of Russian imperialism, offensive language toward Ukraine and Ukrainians, and attempts to break the state from within.

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