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The daughter of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, who was assassinated in February 2015, Zhanna Nemtsova, intends to donate 700,000 euro of the Lech Walesa Solidarity Prize she was awarded to support charity projects in Ukraine.

“Part of the prize in the amount of EUR 700,000 will be allocated to charity projects in the Eastern Partnership countries. This is stipulated in the conditions of the prize. All these charity projects will be financed mostly in Ukraine, which is currently suffering from the ruthless war,” Nemtsova said in Warsaw on Aug. 4 before the award ceremony, the Radio Poland website reported.

According to her, the funds will be allocated to provide support to the families of the Heavenly Hundred Heroes, those who were killed during the Euromaidan protests in Ukraine in 2013-2014. In addition, they will be spent on school repairs and equipment procurement in the Ukrainian regions where internally displaced people from occupied Crimea and Donbas were resettled.

Nemtsova also said that she planned to give grants to Belarus-based website Charter97, whose editor-in-chief is Nata Radina.

In an interview with Deutsche Welle, Nemtsova said: “I will send the first part of the award – EUR 250,000 to the Boris Nemtsov Fund, 50,000 euro – on a study tour of Poland, and 700 euro – for charity and in support of independent journalism in the Eastern Partnership countries. This year, a large part of this sum will be donated to charity in Ukraine.”

As reported, Nemtsova was awarded Lech Walesa Solidarity Prize on Aug. 4.

The Solidarity Prize was established by the Polish Foreign Minister. It is awarded for supporting democracy and freedom in the world, offered by a country that has carried out a successful transition to democracy. Each laureate receives a statuette and EUR 1 million, of which EUR 250,000 goes to the laureate; 700,000 euro is to be allocated to finance the development of cooperation projects, indicated by the laureate; 50,000 euro is allocated to finance studies in Poland for the laureate or a group of persons selected by the laureate.

On Aug. 6, Nemtsova started working as a reporter for the Russian service of Deutsche Welle in Bonn.