Nobel Peace Prize: File images of candidate Svetlana Gannushkina A veteran Russian rights activist, or the architects of the Iranian nuclear accord? The field of contenders for Friday's Nobel Peace Prize was suddenly thrown wide open after the Colombian people's shock rejection of a peace deal put its negotiators out of the running. The director of Oslo's Peace Research Institute (PRIO) believes the top contender is Russian human rights activist Svetlana Gannushkina for her decades-long work with migrants and refugees. FILE IMAGES of Svetlana Gannoushkina