February 11, 2013. President Vladimir Putin, right, at the ceremony for presenting state awards to Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials that got new positions and senior diplomatic ranks. Novo-Ogaryovo residence. Sergei Kiselyov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia in the Czech Republic, recipient of the Order of Friendship.

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February 11, 2013. President Vladimir Putin at the ceremony for presenting state awards to Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials that got new positions and senior diplomatic ranks. Novo-Ogaryovo residence. Andrei Denisov, left, first deputy foreign minister, recipient of the Order of Friendship.

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February 11, 2013. President Vladimir Putin, right, at the ceremony for presenting state awards to Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials that got new positions and senior diplomatic ranks. Novo-Ogaryovo residence. Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia in Bosnia and Herzegovina, recipient of the Order of Friendship.

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February 11, 2013. President Vladimir Putin, right, at the ceremony for presenting state awards to Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials that got new positions and senior diplomatic ranks. Novo-Ogaryovo residence. Alexander Yakovenko, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, recipient of the Order of Friendship.

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February 11, 2013. President Vladimir Putin, right, at the ceremony for presenting state awards to Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials that got new positions and senior diplomatic ranks. Novo-Ogaryovo residence. Alexander Kalugin, left, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, recipient of the Order of Friendship.

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Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the ceremony for presenting state awards to Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials that got new positions and senior diplomatic ranks. Novo-Ogaryovo residence.

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Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov, right, and Andrei Denisov, left, first deputy foreign minister, recipient of the Order of Friendship, at the ceremony for presenting state awards to Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials that got new positions and senior diplomatic ranks.

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Konstantin Kosachyov, head of the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Cultural Cooperation, at the ceremony for presenting state awards to Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials that got new positions and senior diplomatic ranks. Novo-Ogaryovo residence.

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Alexander Veshnyakov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia in the Latvian Republic, recipient of the Order of Honor, at the ceremony for presenting state awards to Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials that got new positions and senior diplomatic ranks. Novo-Ogaryovo residence.

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Alexander Yakovenko, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, recipient of the Order of Friendship, at the ceremony for presenting state awards to Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials that got new positions and senior diplomatic ranks. Novo-Ogaryovo residence.

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February 11, 2013. President Vladimir Putin, right, at the ceremony for presenting state awards to Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials that got new positions and senior diplomatic ranks. Novo-Ogaryovo residence.

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Alexander Veshnyakov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia in the Latvian Republic, recipient of the Order of Honor, at the ceremony for presenting state awards to Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials that got new positions and senior diplomatic ranks. Novo-Ogaryovo residence.

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Alexander Yakovenko, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, recipient of the Order of Friendship, at the ceremony for presenting state awards to Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials that got new positions and senior diplomatic ranks. Novo-Ogaryovo residence.

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February 11, 2013. President Vladimir Putin at the ceremony for presenting state awards to Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials that got new positions and senior diplomatic ranks. Novo-Ogaryovo residence.

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