WIRE — The committee has not yet made a public statement about his disqualification from the prize, but according to Valery Melnikov's Instagram post, representatives of the award referred to him as a "Kremlin-media-linked photographer," which is a term used to refer to him in the title of the Kyiv Independent's article about his work.
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