like with their selection of said london alexi of each the belorussian journalist is a prominent critic of russian president vladimir putin and was selected for a nonfiction works dealing with the collapse of the soviet union. the decision to award the prize to bob dylan in two thousand and sixteen for his lyrical work caused controversy especially when the american singer songwriter seemed to ignore it for weeks afterward when academy remember reportedly called him rude and arrogant while the nobel prize for literature has had its detractors throughout its history it still remains the most visible and rolled include every prize in the world. and we have karen hopes that from d.w. culture with us following this story hi karen hi so why are we seeing this decision now ok so this whole mess is obviously surrounding the photographer and cultural figure actually no no he is mentioned the husband of cutting a who's an academy member and poet and there are several reasons that's why this is happening because there are several things that he's a civil accusations against him first and foremost

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activist alexis who was barred from challenging putin in russia's 2018 presidential election was dragged away by police within minutes of arriving at that rally. nbc's cal perry is joining us live from london with the latest details. cal, good morning. >> reporter: hey, phillip, good morning to you. so, we're about 90 minutes away now from president putin being sworn in as you said, now in power for some 18 years. those protests taking place across the country, 19 different cities and at least a thousand people detained. some of those pictures there. now this is an ever increasingly isolated vladimir putin, of course, we're talking about that potential election meddling in the united states. the annexation of crimea from ukraine, recently accusations that the government poisoned a former russian spy here in the united kingdom using some nerve agent. all of that something we're going to be watching over the next six years of the prime minister's -- excuse me, the president's term. by the constitution this will be the last term that he's able to serve unless of course he's able to change that constitution. phillip? >> and that is certainly always a possibility with mr. putin. thank you so mu

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