The Order of the Republic () is Moldova's highest order. It is awarded by the President of Moldova for exceptional merits in all fields which benefit Moldova and humanity as a whole. The order was established in July 1992 and its collar and badge are made from silver.
A recipient cannot receive the award twice. The next (lower) award is the Order of Stephen the Great.
Recipients
Moldovan
1992
Anton Gămurari Nicolae Sulac Tudor Casapu Maria Bieșu Eugen Pâslaru Vladimir Curbet Mihai Grecu Doina and Ion Aldea Teodorovici 1993
Pavel Barbulat
1994
Ion Bostan Eva Gudumac Domnica Darienco
1995
Natalia Gheorghiu Gheorghe Paladi
1996
Anatol Codru Sergiu Rădăuțanu Vladimir Beșleagă Vasile Vasilache Mihai Cimpoi Nicolae Dabija Dumitru Matcovschi Spiridon Vangheli Grigore Vieru Silviu Berejan Anatol Ciobanu Ion Hadârcă Leonida Lari Nicolae Juravschi Vladimir Andrunakievich Haralambie Corbu
1997
Eugen Doga Sofia Rotaru Eugenio Coșeriu Timofei Moșneaga
1998
Mihai Petric
Eugen Gladun Ilie Bogdesko Valeriu Gagiu Victor Teleucă Ada Zevin
1999
Metropolitan Vladimir Victor Pușcaș
2000
Mircea Snegur Serafim Urechean Emil Loteanu
2001
Nicolae Filip Mihai Dolgan Leonid Talmaci
2002 Vasile Iovv Mihail Popovici
2003
Ivan Bodiul
2004
Ion Ababii Ion Suruceanu
2005
Petru Lucinschi Ivan Calin Vadim Mișin Gheorghe Ghidirim Valerian Revenco
2006
Zinaida Greceanîi Valeria Șterbeț
2007
Eugenia Ostapciuc
2008
Gheorghe Urschi Vasile Tarlev Anatolie Popușoi
2009
Dumitru Pulbere Aurelian Silvestru Petru Bogatu Lorena Bogza Vasile Botnaru Val Butnaru Corina Fusu Aneta Grosu Valeriu Saharneanu Constantin Tănase Valentina Ursu Ion Ungureanu
2010
Petru Cărare Ion Ciocanu Mihail Cibotaru Nicolae Esinencu Serafim Saca Andrei Strâmbeanu Valeriu Boboc Nicolae Mătcaș Diomid Gherman Ion Dediu Valentin Mândâcanu Petru Godiac Ilie Ilașcu Andrei Ivanțoc Alexandru Leșco Tudor Petrov-Popa Ștefan Urîtu Nicolai Costenco Vadim Pirogan Pantelimon Halippa Alexandru Usatiuc-Bulgăr Gheorghe Ghimpu Valeriu Graur Alexandru Șoltoianu Nadejda Brînzan Ion Ciuntu Nicolae Costin Mircea Druc Lidia Istrati Valeriu Matei Ion Moraru Alexandru Moșanu Vasile Nedelciuc Tudor Panțîru Gheorghe Grosu Petru Soltan Anatol Șalaru Andrei Vartic Ion Vatamanu Boris Vieru Gheorghe Vrabie Adrian Păunescu Vasile Bahnaru Ion Dumeniuc Ion Iovcev Nicolae Testemițanu Andrei Eșanu Nicolae Glib
2011
Alecu Reniță Anatol Țăranu Gheorghe Duca Vitalie Gorincioi Victor Berlinschi Mihai Coșcodan Gheorghe Hioară Mihai Patraș
2012
Valeriu Bulgari Mihai Ghimpu Dumitru Puntea Vladimir Darie Ion Lapaci Aurel Saulea Nicolae Negru Ion Munteanu Anatol Chiriac Alexei Barbăneagră Gheorghe Amihalachioaie Nicolae Andronic Alexandru Arseni Mihai Volontir Dumitru Todoroi Ion Mărgineanu Ion Batcu Ion Costaș Ilie Bratu Gheorghe Ciobanu Mihai Dimitriu Ion Chiriac Ion Buga Dumitru Noroc Mihai Cotorobai Petru Munteanu Valentin Dolganiuc Sergiu Chircă Mihail Druță Ion Guțu Ion Madan Ion Negură Ștefan Maimescu Dumitru Moțpan Ion Palii Dumitru Brașoveanu Vasile Para Nicolae Misail Ion Borșevici Ion Popa Anatol Plugaru Mihai Poiată Dumitru Postovan Ion Russu Tudor Țopa Ion Țurcanu Vasile Ursu Valentin Colun Vasile Vatamanu
2013
Vladimir Hotineanu Dumitru Diacov
2014
Anatol Vidrașcu Anastasia Lazariuc Ștefan Petrache Mihai Severovan Igor Corman Natalia Gherman Ana Guțu Iurie Leancă Marian Lupu Liliana Palihovici Ion Păduraru Valeriu Streleț Nicolae Osmochescu
2015
Mihail Cibotaru Pavel Cebanu Victor Catan
2016
Grigore Belostecinic Vladimir Braga Veaceslav Untilă Mihai Furtună
2017
Dmitri Todoroglo Ion Solonenco Dumitru Braghiș Victor Gaiciuc Andrei Sangheli Stepan Topal Mihail Kendighelean
2018
Victor Țvircun Victor Stepaniuc
2019
Valeriu Pasat Vasile Stati Larisa Șavga Ion Dosca Eduard Smirnov Petru Pascari
2020
Mihail Pop Valeriu Chițan Valeriu Jereghi Eugeniu Știrbu Vladimir Țurcan Valeriu Rudic Alexandru Muravschi Mitrofan Cioban Larisa Popova
2021
Lidia Kulikovski Nicolae Bulat Viorel Iordachescu Valeriu Mițul Valeriu Muravschi Valentina Naforniță Tatiana Țîbuleac Veaceslav Țurcan
2023
Tudor Zbârnea Nicu Popescu
2024
Petru Hadârcă Valeriu Duminică
2025
Emilian Galaicu-Păun Vasile Șoimaru Oazu Nantoi Ala Nemerenco Nicolae Timofti
Foreign Jacques Chirac – President of France (1995–2007) Juan Antonio Samaranch – President of the International Olympic Committee (1980–2001) Konstantinos Stephanopoulos – President of Greece (1995–2005) Emil Constantinescu – President of Romania (1996–2000) Leonid Kuchma – President of Ukraine (1994–2005) Süleyman Demirel – President of Turkey (1993–2000) Alexy II of Moscow – Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' (1990–2008) Karolos Papoulias – President of Greece (2005–2015) Stjepan Mesić – President of Croatia (2000–2010) Georgi Parvanov – President of Bulgaria (2002–2012) Alexey Miller Traian Băsescu – President of Romania (2004–2014) Eugen Simion Tudor Gheorghe Mikheil Saakashvili – President of Georgia (2004–2007; 2008–2013) Kirill of Moscow – Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' (2009–present) Bartholomew I of Constantinople – Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch (1991–present) Irinel Popescu Gheorghe Zamfir Petro Poroshenko – President of Ukraine (2014–2019) Bronislaw Komorowski – President of Poland (2010–2015) Dalia Grybauskaitė – President of Lithuania (2009–2019) Angela Merkel – Chancellor of Germany (2005–2021) Klaus Iohannis – President of Romania (2014–2025) Alexander Lukashenko – President of Belarus (1994–present) Rosen Plevneliev – President of Bulgaria (2012–2017) Dacian Cioloș – Prime Minister of Romania (2015–2017) Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow – President of Turkmenistan (2007–2022) Victor Ponta – Prime Minister of Romania (2012–2015; 2015) Recep Tayyip Erdoğan – President of Turkey (2014–present) Emmanuel Macron – President of France (2017–present) Elaine Marshall – Secretary of State of North Carolina (1997–present) Salome Zourabichvili – President of Georgia (2018–2024) Gitanas Nausėda – President of Lithuania (2019–present) Volodymyr Zelenskyy – President of Ukraine (2019–present)
Institutional
Cricova Joc National Ballet of Moldova Lăutarii National Orchestra Moldova State University National Library of Moldova Purcari State Agrarian University of Moldova Technical University of Moldova Nicolae Testemițanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy State University of Physical Education and Sport Timofei Moșneaga Republican Clinical Hospital Diomid Gherman Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery Mother and Child Institute Orhei-Vit Ionel (clothing factory) Țiganca (winery) Codreanca Dance Studio National Museum of Fine Arts of Moldova Alecu Russo State University of Bălți
References
External links Preşedinţia Republicii Moldova