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Russian Nobel Peace Prize winner donates medal to fund for Ukrainian refugees

FILE PHOTO: Nobel Peace Prize winner for the year Dmitry Muratov takes part in a news conference at the Prime Minister's residence in Oslo, Norway December 11, 2021. Hakon Mosvold Larsen/NTB/via REUTERS/File Photo

Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov, a co-winner of last year's Nobel Peace Prize, said on Tuesday he would donate his Nobel medal to be auctioned to raise funds for Ukrainian refugees.

The Novaya Gazeta newspaper, where Muratov is editor-in-chief, in early March said it would remove material on Russia's military actions in Ukraine from its website because of censorship, in response to threats of criminal prosecution of journalists and citizens who veer from the government's official line.

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