Ig Nobel Prize awarded to Alyaksandr Lukashenka in US (video)

The Ig Nobel Prize was founded by the American magazine Annals of Improbable Research in 1991. It is awarded for “scientific achievements that make you laugh at first and then make you think” every year.

 This year’s prize winners are the inventors of an automatic way of catching airplane hijackers, researchers of ways of walking on the water in other planets and Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka.  Every prize winner had to be awarded with a hammer in a box under glass, a note Ig Nobel 2013 and 10 trillions of Zimbabwe dollars in one banknote.

Alyaksandr Lukashenka got the Ig Nobel Peace Prize, RIA Novosti reports. He was awarded for “turning public applause into an illegal action” (silent protest in 2011) and the police – “for arresting a one-armed man for applause”, the organizers noted.

 See here for the full list of winners. 

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