New member of the jury — Maria Ozmitel (Kyrgyzstan)

New member of the jury — Maria Ozmitel (Kyrgyzstan)

Maria Ozmitel, journalist, correspondent of the Central Asian Representative Office of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Editorial Office of the Rossiyskaya Gazeta":

"I remember a picture from social networks with the inscription "I am one of those people who says Hello to all animals i meet!". "Hello!“ I say too. To yard cats, tabloid dogs and the neighbor's dwarf dachshund, I also say "Hello!" 

With childlike spontaneity and sincere admiration, which, fortunately, I managed to keep in myself, I greet the horses standing along the country road near my house. Sitting in the garden gazebo, I may not be too enthusiastic, but I'll blurt out "hello" to the mantis. I admit that I am a little afraid of these arthropods. But as long as there are all these noses, eyes, paws and tails, wings and beaks to greet, I feel really alive." 

It is scary and painful when these creatures of God suffer, especially when they suffer because of the monstrous acts committed by man. And only knowing that there are people in the world who are ready to devote themselves to the protection of animals, who are not able to get past the troubles of these creatures defenseless before "civilization", you can keep faith in humanity, the belief that we do not just live on this Earth.