Russian Journalist Auctions His Nobel Peace Prize For Record $103M, Proceeds To Benefit Ukrainian Children

The New York Times reports:

The Nobel Peace Prize put up for auction by the Russian journalist Dmitri A. Muratov to help Ukrainian refugees sold Monday night for $103.5 million to an anonymous buyer, obliterating the record for a Nobel medal.

The proceeds from the auction will go to UNICEF to aid Ukrainian children and their families displaced by Russia’s invasion of their country. Mr. Muratov is the editor in chief of the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, which suspended publication in March in response to the Kremlin’s increasingly draconian press laws.

In an interview with The New York Times last month, he said he was inspired to auction the award he won last year by the Danish physicist Niels Bohr, who sold his medal to help civilian relief in Finland following the Soviet invasion of that country in 1939.

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A Nobel Peace Prize medal put up for auction by a Russian journalist to help Ukrainian child refugees sold for $103.5 million to an anonymous buyer.

Dimitri Muratov will donate the proceeds to UNICEF. https://t.co/X9RYQmwB47

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