The first bids are handsome.
Amounts in the millions, one, two digits and then - an anonymous puts $ 103.5 million.
does anyone say more
No one has ever offered so much for a Nobel Peace Prize medal.
One of these has already been auctioned off, but as a “bargain”: in 2014, molecular biologist James Watson’s medal went for $4.76 million.
Now, in the case of Dmitry Muratov, it's almost a hundred million more for a good cause: the sum goes to the aid program for refugee Ukrainian children run by the UN children's fund UNICEF.
Muratov said he was particularly concerned about children who were orphaned because of the war.
The auction may encourage people to "auction valuable possessions to help Ukrainians".
The editor-in-chief of the discontinued “Novaya Gazeta” had already donated his prize money of 470,000 euros and underlined his opposition to Putin and his war of annihilation in Ukraine.
For this - for the fight for freedom of expression - Muratov received the Nobel Peace Prize.
His newspaper fought against Putin's censorship to the end. Six journalists from the paper lost their lives, including Anna Politkovskaya, who was murdered in October 2006. Muratov was recently attacked on the train with caustic paint, and the police refuse to investigate.
At the auction, he touched the words of a girl from Mariupol, whose prayer was: Dear God, help me charge my phone so I can call my mom.
Imagine that this is your own child.
He does not see the medal again, but he would "like to see the future of the people who benefit from the auction".
Our proposal for the next Nobel Peace Prize: Dmitri Muratov.