RUSSIA
HONOURS INDIAN P.M. NARENDRA MODI WTH HIGHEST AWARD
Prime
Minister Narendra Modi has been honoured with Russia’s highest state
decoration, the Order of St Andrew the Apostle.(India in Russia/Twitter )
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been honoured with Russia’s
highest state decoration, the Order of St Andrew the Apostle.
The award has been given to PM Modi for “exceptional
services in promoting special and privileged strategic partnership between the
Russian Federation and the Republic of India and friendly relations between the
Russian and Indian peoples”, a statement by the Russian embassy said.
This is the seventh award conferred on PM Modi by a foreign
country.
The order to award PM Modi the country’s highest civilian
award was signed by President Vladimir Putin.
The Russian award comes barely a week after the Prime
Minister was conferred with United Arab Emirates’s highest civilian decoration,
the Order of Zayed, which is awarded to people who contribute to international
leadership in strengthening relations with the country.
established at the end of the 17th century by Tsar Peter I
in honour of Apostle Andrew the First Called. It was abolished after the
October revolution of 1917 along with the other awards of the Russian empire.
However, it was revived on July 1, 1998, as the highest state award of the
Russian Federation by President Boris Yeltsin.
Between 1998 and June 2018, the award has been given to only
18 people, including weapons designer Mikhail Kalashnikov; writers Alexander
Solzhenitsyn, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II; doctors Valery
Shumakov and Boris Petrovsky; singers Lyudmila Zykina and Irina Arkhipova;
choreographer Yuri Grigorovich; and former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev.
Among
the foreign political figures who have received the award are President of
Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev, President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev and
Chairman of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping.
EXTRACTED FROM THE HINDUSTAN TIMES OF INDIA
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