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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