Russian journalist, Dmitry Muratov sells Nobel Prize for £84,500,000 to give to Ukraine’s kids

Award-winning Russian journalists have raised over $ 100 million for Ukrainian children by auctioning the Nobel Peace Award.

Dmitry Muratov has sometime back last year received an award of the golden medal in October 2021, having helped discovered the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, breaking the record for the highest sum paid for the medal last night in New York, he was able accumulate over the sum of $103.5 million (£84.5 million),  27 times higher than the old record set eight years ago.

Previously, the most ever paid for a Nobel Prize medal was in 2014, when James Watson, whose co-discovery of the structure of DNA earned him a Nobel Prize in 1962, sold his medal for $4.76 million (£3.9 million).

Ahead of the auction, Mr Muratov said he was particularly concerned about children who have been orphaned because of the conflict in Ukraine. ‘We want to return their future,’ he said.

The money gotten from the auction set by the Journalist will be given to the Ukrainian children refugees through UNICEF, to give the children a chance at life and future.

Mr Muratov has been highly critical of Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crime and the war launched in February. It has caused nearly five million Ukrainians to flee their country, creating the largest humanitarian crisis in Europe since World War II. UNICEF estimated back in March that 2 million children had been among those forced to flee.