the international scope of the award has grown from year to year, confirming in 2011 with the award of the prize to a chechen exile, shachman akbulatov, who in 2008 was appointed director of the memorial (association) of grozny, and that hard work brought forth a complaint of abuse and oppression in chechnya, where were killed in the same years, some journalists and human rights activists, including journalist anna politkovskaya and the freelance journalist italian antonio russo (formerly witness of peace, 2006).