The author was able to make his opinion about Putin getting the Award subtly; by stating that many incidences of human rights abuses occurred in Chechnya right after the paragraph on Qiao Damo’s assetion that Putin deserved the “Peace” prize, the author has already shown his disagreement with Putin getting the Award due to such facts.
However it is noted that towards the end of the article, there is much extraneous (negative) information about the Award and the people behind it. (There was even a paragraph about the withdrawal of a similar award.) This (unfortunately) gave me the impression that the author wants to discredit the Award even further. This also made his article appear unfocused with certain irrelevant content (e.g. references to previous year’s award).
