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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5: How is it that Vladimir Putin was nominated for the 2014 nobel peace prize?
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Formal nominations may be submitted by anyone in the following categories:

* Members of national assemblies and governments of states.
* Members of international courts.
* University rectors; professors of social sciences, history, philosophy, law and theology; directors of peace research institutes and foreign policy institutes.
* Persons who have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
* Board members of organizations that have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 
* Active and former members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee; (proposals by members of the Committee to be submitted no later than at the first meeting of the Committee after February 1).
* Former advisers to the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

If just one of those people thinks you should be nominated enough to go through with it, you can be a nominee. That doesn't mean you have any support or approval from the Committee; 278 people were nominated this year and you can bet there were some they discarded early.