Bakh Khoussainov is a co-winner of the EATCS-EPEC Nerode Prize for his papers on parity games. The prize is shared with Frank Stephan, Sanjay Jain, Wei Li (NUS) and Cristian Calude (the University of Auckland). The prize is for outstanding research in the area of multivariate algorithms. The award is given by the European Association for theoretical computer science (EATCS) and the International symposium on parametrized and exact computation. As a winner Bakh Khoussainov is an invited co-speaker in the special event at IPEC 2021 conference. See https://eatcs.org/index.php/nerode-prize.