The message reads, in part:

“I consider your project to be an important and highly essential initiative aiming to facilitate the consolidation of the international public around the noble ideas of maintaining peace and security on the planet, upholding human rights and freedoms and forging a new, equitable multipolar international order, based on the principles of sovereign equality and respect for the legitimate interests of each other, as well as the primacy of international law.

I am delighted to note that entire organisations, as well as representatives of public, religious and volunteer associations, business circles, academic and educational institutions of various countries and continents can receive this prestigious prize. This concerns all who devote themselves to a lofty peace-making and charitable mission, strive to make their contribution to the cause of strengthening friendship and mutual understanding between nations and to implement significant initiatives in the sphere of culture and historical education. Of course, it is deeply symbolic that the prize is named after Leo Tolstoy, our outstanding writer and a great advocate of humanity.”