BRUSSELS, 21 June. - (ANA) - An auction of Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov's Nobel Peace Prize raised $103.5 million (€98 million) for Unicef efforts to help children displaced by the war in Ukraine. 

 

It is a record sum for a Nobel medal peace prize. 

 

Muratov was awarded the gold medal in October 2021 for helping found the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta. 

 

He was the publication's editor-in-chief until it was shut down in March by the Kremlin.   - (ANA) -

 

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