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From left: President Dmitry Medvedev presenting the Order of Merit for the Fatherland (third degree) to Vyacheslav Mikhailov, chairman of the Moscow House of War Veterans and Retired Servicemen, at the award-giving ceremony in the the Kremlin's Catherine Hall, March 5, 2009.
- Categories: Unrest, Conflicts & War, Politics
- Location: Moscow, Russia
- Event date: 05.03.2009
- Date published: 05.03.2009
- Author: Mikhail Klimentyev
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
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