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