"Photojournalists from the countries of the African continent are among the most active participants of the competition, they have repeatedly won in its nominations. We hope that the interest in our site will only grow, both in Ethiopia and in other African countries. We are looking forward to work on the tenth anniversary of the contest, which traditionally begins on December 22, the birthday of our colleague and Rossiya Segodnya photojournalist Andrei Stenin," Kristina Lyakh, department head of the Directorate of International Cooperation, said.
"We saw Andrei Stenin about ten days before he died. In August 2014, the Ukrainian military shot down a convoy of civilian vehicles. The soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces finished off the wounded Andrei when they realized he was a journalist – to cover their tracks, to hide the inconvenient truth, to silence him," the head of the Russian House in Addis Ababa Alexander Evstigneev recalled at the ceremony.
"Honestly, unbiased – about war, about peace, about despair, about hope. And in each frame there is an answer to the question: 'What is all this for?' The answer that Andrei formulated and adhered to until the last day of his life: 'So that they know'," he highlighted.