Environmentalist Might Win Nobel Peace Prize

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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6444463

OSLO (Reuters) - A Russian or Kenyan environmentalist might win the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday if the secretive committee carries out a plan to widen the scope of the award, Norway's NRK television said on Thursday.

NRK, which has often correctly picked the winner, gave no strong tips and noted that many peace experts reckoned that the United Nations nuclear watchdog and its head, Mohamed ElBaradei, were favorites.

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"If it were to do so this year, a person like (Russia's) Alexander Nikitin could be a possibility," he said.

Nikitin, a former naval officer, cooperated with Norwegian environmental group Bellona to expose details of radioactive pollution from the Russian fleet in Arctic seas. He was arrested in 1996 and charged with treason, but eventually acquitted.

[Carla in Ca]

1. And Bob Dylan is nominated in the poetry catagory.

Has been a nominee since 1997.