A Russian Nobel winner is selling his medal for Ukraine
STORY: This Russian journalist is selling
his Nobel Peace medal for Ukraine
He wants to bring attention
to the conflict’s refugees
NOVAYA GAZETA EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, DMITRY MURATOV:
"My country invaded the territory of another state, Ukraine. There are now 15.5 million refugees, and how one must deal with this is completely incomprehensible. We thought for a long time about what we could do, what each individual could do, and we thought that everyone should give away that which is dear to them, important to them."
Muratov's medal is being auctioned off
on June 20: World Refugee Day
He’s heard it could fetch
$2 million or more
His Novaya Gazeta newspaper
is critical of the Kremlin
It halted some work in March
when it became a crime to veer
from Russia’s lines about the campaign
"I am absolutely sure that the absence of real freedom of speech, of real exchange of opinions, of real freedom of expression means that people have no choice. They just have to believe what the state propagandists tell them. Of course, a free and independent media is an antidote to war."
Moscow said it’s defusing
a military threat
and protecting
Russian-speakers in Ukraine
Ukraine and Western countries say
those claims are a baseless
pretext to attack
