June 17, 2009. President Dmitry Medvedev, second left, Chinese President Hu Jintao, second right, and commander of a MI-26 crew of the Emergencies Ministry Anton Lebedev, right, and Director of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Far Eastern Studies and Chairman of the of the Russian-Chinese Friendship Society Mikhail Titarenko, left, who have been awarded with medals in memory of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Russia and China.