February 13, BNS–The Person of Tolerance of the Year for 2015 was named Saturday at a ceremony in Kaunas, the Sugihara Foundation informed BNS. Chiune Sugihara’s son Nobuki presented the award to the recipient. Recipients usually receive a commemorative medal designed by the sculptor Edmundas Frėjus and a certificate. The award is made annually to people who through their words and deeds stand against xenophobia and anti-Semitism and the persecution of members of minority ethnicities, religions and schools of thought, and who speak out against violence and radicalism in Lithuanian public life. This year the Sugihara Foundation had a field of five candidates to choose from, including businessman Valdas Balčiūnas, Lithuanian Lutheran bishop Mindaugas Sabutis, editor and journalist Rimvydas Valatka, psychologist Paulius Skruibis and author and activist Sergejus Kanovičius.