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June 12, 2009. President Dmitry Medvedev, right, presenting the 2008 state award for achievements in science and technology to Iosif Atabekov, Doctor of Biology, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, head of the Virology Department at Moscow State University's Biology Department, at the St. George Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace.
- Categories: Politics, Science & Technology
- Location: Moscow, Russia
- Event date: 12.06.2009
- Date published: 12.06.2009
- Author: Dmitry Astakhov
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
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