December 22, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Director General of the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution of Science "The State Scientific Center of the Russian Federation - A.I. Burnazyan Federal Medical and Biophysical Center" Konstantin Kotenko, who was conferred the honourary title of a Merited Doctor of the Russian Federation, during the ceremony of presentation of state awards to outstanding Russians in the Kremlin.