“This prize is not addressing President Putin, not for his birthday, or in any other sense — except that his government, as the government in Belarus, is representing an authoritarian government that is suppressing human rights activists,” she said, adding that the committee awards the prize “for something and to somebody and not against anyone.”Ales Bialiatski was one of the initiators of the democracy movement that emerged in Belarus in the mid-1980s.“Nobel Committee has an interesting understanding of word 'peace' if representatives of two countries that attacked a third one receive @NobelPrize together,” said Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on Twitter.Previous winners also include the World Food Program, female education activist and Taliban attack survivor Malala Yousafzai, ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, civil rights hero Martin Luther King Jr., and four former U.S. Presidents: Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.The Nobel Committee also awarded prizes in Physics to scientists Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger for their work to develop new telecommunications systems that are impossible to break into.In Chemistry, Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless were the winners, for their work in developing a way of “snapping molecules together” that can be used to explore cells, map DNA and design drugs that can target diseases such as cancer more precisely."