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- ↑ "Waynakh Online » Memorial Received the Victor Gollancz Prize". www.waynakh.com.
- ↑ "Chechnyan President forces Victor Gollancz Prize-winner Oleg Orlov to face a court hearing". Archived from the original on 2014-07-15. Retrieved 2014-06-20.
- ↑ Invitation to the awarding of the "Victor Gollancz Prize" to Bernard Kouchner Archived 2015-05-18 at the Wayback Machine , gfbv.de