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The Guardian - UK
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Mattha Busby and agency

Nobel Foundation reverses decision to invite Russian ambassador to awards

View from a balcony of people on stage and seated in an auditorium
The 2022 Nobel prize award ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden. Photograph: Pontus Lundahl/AP

The Nobel Foundation has reversed its decision to invite ambassadors from Russia and Belarus to this year’s Nobel awards ceremony in Stockholm after the invitation sparked anger.

In 2022, the Nobel Foundation, which organises the annual Nobel prize ceremony and banquet in Stockholm, decided not to invite the Russian and Belarusian ambassadors to the awards event because of the war in Ukraine.

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