M100 Sanssouci Colloquium and M100 Media Award 2023

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We stand by your side!

2 March 2022. We pay our deepest respect and support for our M100 Media Award laureate Vitali Klitschko, his brother Wladimir, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and all the brave Ukrainian  who fiercely defended themselves and stood in front of the Russian tanks and fight for freedom, democracy,human rights and a free Ukraine!

Vitali Klitschko and his brother Wladimir tirelessly send messages to the world. They post their appeals on social media, give interviews in Ukrainian, Russian, English and German. Demonstrate strength, stay by their people’s side and give them courage. Calling on international partners around the world to stand by Ukraine “in this senseless war that will have no winners, only losers”.

Vitali Klitschko – like President Zelenskyy – was often ridiculed and discredited as incompetent and corrupt. Those days are over. They are at the top of Putin’s death list, but they refuse to leave their country, their people.

“I need ammunition, not a ride,” Zelenskyy replied to the Americans who offered to take him out of the country.

They are heroes who deserve all our respect and support.

And we pay respect to the Russian people who are taking to the streets against Putin, and to the independent journalists like Natalia Sindeeva, M100 Media Award laureate 2017, who have been reporting the truth for many years against the greatest odds and despite danger to life and limb, and who long for freedom and democracy. Many have already been guests at the M100 Sanssouci Colloquium and the M100YEJ in Potsdam. We also stand by your side.

#WeStandWithUkraine #StayWithUkraine #FreeNavalny

Statements of our M100 Alumni in Ukraine: Olesya Bida

1 March 2022. “The weapon of Ukrainian journalists is verified information without Russian falsifications. Almost all my colleagues have left Kiev. It is really dangerous to be here now.
We work from different cities, but I never thought our team would be so strong. Some of my colleagues work from underground shelters. I am very proud of them.”

Olesya works as a journalist for the independent Ukrainian medium hromadske.ua, which was founded eight years ago during the Maidan Revolution.
She reports live from the streets of Kiev, from destroyed buildings, traumatised people, fear, but also hope.
In 2016 she participated in the M100YEJ.
Twitter @OlesyaBida

Advisory Board of the M100 Sanssouci Colloquium shows solidarity with the Ukrainian people and Vitali Klitschko

Potsdam, 25 February 2022. The Advisory Board of the M100 Sanssouci Colloquium, chaired by Potsdam’s Lord Mayor Mike Schubert, expresses its solidarity with the Ukrainian people and with Vitali Klitschko, Mayor of Kiev and M100 Media Award laureate 2014. In 2014, Klitschko was the face of the largely democratic, pro-Euroepan opposition which achieved the dismissal of former President Viktor Yanukovich. To this day, as mayor of the Ukrainian capital, he is a symbol of Kiev’s and the entire Ukraine’s desire for freedom.

“Even as a Lord Mayor I can only guess the great pressure in this terrible war situation on Vitali Klitschko and his fellow mayors who have to organise civil defence. Our thoughts are with the people in Ukraine who have been affected by Russian aggression,” said Potsdam’s Lord Mayor Mike Schubert. “We must and will do everything we can to end this brutal, senseless war that threatens the democratic order of Europe. As the Safe Haven Cities Alliance, in which 120 German cities are committed to taking in refugees, we will do everything we can to support the Ukrainians, with aid deliveries as well as by taking in those people who are forced to leave their homes.”

We, the members of the M100 Advisory Board, will do everything in our power to continue to give the people of Ukraine a voice in our media.

Signatories: Mike Schubert, Prof. Dr h.c. Alexandra Borchardt, Stephan-Andreas Casdorff, Kai Diekmann, Astrid Frohloff, Jann Jakobs, Christoph Lanz, Mathias Müller von Blumencron, Dr Leonard Novy, Dr Christian Rainer, Sabine Schicketanz, Dr Uwe Vorkötter, Moritz van Dülmen, Sabine Sasse