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Ceremony awarding state decorations to foreign citizens who have made a great contribution to building friendship and cooperation with Russia was held in the Kremlin

November 4, 2009
16:00
Moscow
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Speaking at a reception at the Kremlin marking the Day of National Unity, Dmitry Medvedev thanked the recipients of state decorations, calling them true enthusiasts who make efforts at the highest level to support interest in Russian culture and history, promote the study of Russian, and preserve the integrity and diversity of the unique Russian world that unites all Russians, wherever they may be, and all friends of Russia around the world.

Recipients of Russian state decorations:

Order of Honour

Helene Carrere d’Encausse – permanent secretary of the Academie Francaise

Order of Friendship

Michael George Charles Franklin Windsor, Prince of Kent – second cousin of Queen Elizabeth II of Britain

Kassa Gebre Hiwot – former Ethiopian ambassador to the Russian Federation

Sergei Kivalov – chairman of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada’s Committee on Justice, Ukraine

Georgy Kryuchkov – executive secretary of public political organisation Ukrainian Forum, Ukraine

Hermann Parzinger – president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Germany

Maya Romenets de Rios – trustee and director of Maxim Gorky School, Republic of Peru

Sergei Tsekov – deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine

Mikhail Shemyakin – member of the New York Academy of Sciences

Pushkin Medal

Isa Naya Bakori – Russian language teacher at Umaru Musa Yar’adua University, Federal Republic of Nigeria

Mir Sahib Jan Nawab-han Kuchai – head of the Russian language department at Kabul State University, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

See also

Ceremony Awarding State Decorations to Foreign Citizens Who Have Made a Great Contribution to Building Friendship and Cooperation with Russia
November 4, 2009

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Publication date: November 4, 2009, 16:00

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