In a post mockingly titled: "The brave 300", media analyst and popular blogger Oleg Kozyrev sarcastically praised the award winners for helping incriminate opposition leaders like Alexei Navalny and Sergei Udaltsov, who are under house arrest on criminal charges in what many have called political trials.
"And when the hordes of Banderites seized Ukraine, you, like the 300 Spartans, came to the frontline and, not allowing any other point of view on air, shuffling the facts whenever it suited you, won a victory over those Banderites and seized Crimea from them"
