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2022: $103.5 million Nobel medal sale at auction

On June 20, 2022, the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta Dmitry Muratov sold the Nobel medal at auction for $103.5 million. The buyer is unknown, bidding was conducted at the Times Center in Manhattan in New York.

According to Muratov, the funds will be transferred to UNICEF, which will transfer money to countries where there are refugees and children of refugees from Ukraine. The editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta noted that the team thought for a long time and decided that everyone should give something expensive and important.

The editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta sold the Nobel medal at auction for $103.5 million

Let's understand: their past was taken away from these people. And let's try to do everything so that they have a future, - said the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta even before the start of the event on the Telegram channel.

Before the auction began, the journalist was asked if he was really ready to sell the medal. Muratov gave an affirmative answer. Earlier, he said that the decision to sell the award was supported by the entire team of Novaya Gazeta.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee fully understands and supports the decision of Dmitry Muratov. It can provide both moral and material support to one of the most worthy cases, "said Olav Njolstad, head of the Nobel Institute in Norway, in an interview with RBC.

Dmitry Muratov received the Nobel Peace Prize along with journalist from the Philippines Maria Resse. He said that the total amount of the award amounted to 40.2 million rubles, of which most of it was sent to charity. Children's hospice "House with a Lighthouse," foundations "Give Life," "Circle of Good" and "Vera" received 5 million rubles each. Another 10 million rubles were transferred to the medical fund of media workers, which helps journalists with serious diseases. The remaining money was spent on shooting a film about the situation of journalism in Russia and on awards to some employees of Novaya Gazeta.

Muratov became the first Russian to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Before him, citizens of the Russian Federation did not receive such an award, it was awarded to two citizens of the Soviet Union: USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev and scientist and human rights activist Andrei Sakharov.^[1]

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