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The decorations have been awarded for major contributions to strengthening friendship and cooperation with the Russian Federation and developing scientific and cultural ties.

The Order of Honour is awarded to Alexander Chachia, chairman of the Samegrelo (“Megrelia”) popular movement in Georgia.

The Order of Friendship is awarded to:

Micheline Calmy-Rey, professor at the European Institute of the University of Geneva, Swiss Confederation;

Helmut Moritz, professor emeritus at the Graz University of Technology, Austrian Republic;

Hideo Nagatsuka, executive secretary of the Japanese Organising Committee for the Russian Culture Festival in Japan;

Smail Chergui, commissioner for Peace and Security of the African Union and citizen of the Algerian People’s Democratic Republic;

Yasuhiro Yamashita, deputy provost at Tokai University and vice-president of the All Japan Judo Federation.

The Medal of Pushkin is awarded to:

Olga Vidova, director of the Russian Centre in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Republic of Kazakhstan;

Galina Vlasova, head of the Department of Philology at the Kazakhstan branch of Lomonosov Moscow State University;

Goretity Jozsef, director of the Institute of Slavonic Studies, Lajos Kossuth University, Hungary;

Yaroslav Melnik, assistant professor at the Institute of Philology at Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Ukraine.