Sorry. I’m always the last to hear things. But this is one of those cases where it’s worth speaking up even later than everyone else. If you had asked me whom the Nobel Peace Prize should go to—not just now, but at any point over the past several years—I would have said: the Memorial Human Rights Center. It is a great organization. Remarkable, legendary people have worked and still work there. They, and others like them, are the hope of our country. Congratulations and hugs to everyone at Memorial @memorial.hrc — I’m proud of you. My congratulations to Ales Bialiatski, to Belarus’s Viasna @viasna96, and to the entire Belarusian people, locked up by their own authorities in one enormous SHIZO (punishment isolation cell). Freedom will come, and spring will come. Congratulations to Ukraine’s Center for Civil Liberties @center_for_civil_liberties. The Peace Prize carries special weight and meaning for a nominee from a country at war, where “peace” is not a banal abstraction but something people fight and die for. I am sure this Peace Prize is the first of many that will justly go to the citizens and organizations of Ukraine. Let peace come, let the prizes come, let a happy life come.