last medal Nobel Prize peace Dmitry Muratov sold at an auction in New York this Monday and Raised a record amount of 103.5 million dollars (98.3 million euros), to go Fully dedicated to Unicef to help Ukrainian children.
The auction, run by the Heritage auction house, took 20 minutes and the price of the medal suddenly rose from $787,000 to $15 million. An anonymous buyer reported that he paid 103.5 million by phone. dollar ends the sale. While other Nobel laureate medals have been sold or auctioned in the past, none have made even a tenth of that amount, and in fact the most expensive medal came in at $4.76 million in 2014. The Heritage house has stopped charging fees. It is customary at auctions, so the entire amount will go to Unicef.
Muratov, founder and director of the last Russian opposition newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, which is closed today, was invited to tender by Heritage in an act where he was practically applauded like a rock star with constant “waw” from the public, but he – who always expresses Russian – for himself “any He said it was not about a party”, but wanted to talk “about human solidarity and hardships”. He recalled that 40% of the 16 million Ukrainian refugees were children, or that two-thirds of Ukrainian children had to leave their homes, which, according to him, had never happened in a conflict in such a short time. He gave the example of a Ukrainian boy who found himself in Russia and asked for money to “charge the phone to call his mother in Ukraine” and asked the audience to put themselves in his shoes for a moment. . “They killed their past and now they want to destroy their future.”
Source: Informacion
