Overview

• The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2025 Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado for her pro-democracy activism and advocacy for judicial independence and human rights.
• Hours before the announcement, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov told TASS that Moscow supported President Donald Trump’s Nobel candidacy, citing his efforts to end the war in Ukraine.
• Speaking to reporters in Tajikistan after the decision, Vladimir Putin said the prize has at times gone to people who “did nothing for peace” and praised Trump’s Gaza ceasefire push as potentially significant if carried out.
• Putin said he discussed ways to settle the Ukraine conflict with Trump at their August summit in Alaska and voiced hope for a one-year extension of the 2010 New START treaty ahead of its February expiration.
• Trump posted thanks to Putin on Truth Social, while Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said he could consider nominating Trump if he ends the war and the Kremlin condemned references to “missiles for a Nobel” as monstrous.