Noteworthy Nobel

The Friday File: Earlier this week, Dimitri Muratov, the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, a newspaper fiercely critical of President Putin and that suspended operations in March after state warnings, auctioned off his 2021 Nobel Peace Prize medal to aid displaced Ukrainian children. The price of $103.5 million obliterated the previous high of $4.76 million in 2014 for James Watson’s co-awarded 1962 Medicine medal for the discovery of DNA structure.