Vladimir Putin is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has been serving as the president of Russia since 2012, having previously served between 2000 and 2008. He was the prime minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012. He has received a number of awards and honours from within Russia, from academic institutions, and from foreign politicians and countries.
Note: Shows awards and honours that were revoked in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
State honours DateCountryDecorationPresenterNotes7 March 2001Order of Ho Chi MinhPresident Trần Đức LươngVietnam's second-highest distinction8 January 2004Order of the Golden EaglePresident Nursultan NazarbayevKazakhstan's highest distinction22 September 2006President Jacques Chirac (Grand Cross) rank is the highest French decoration12 February 2007 Order of Abdulaziz al SaudAtul Aneja Putin goes calling on the Saudis. The Hindu. 20 February 2007.King AbdullahSaudi Arabia's highest civilian award10 September 2007Order of ZayedPutin Receives Top UAE's Decoration, Order of Zayed , Rbc.ru, 10 September 2007.Sheikh KhalifaUAE's highest civil decoration6 October 2007Order of Ismoili SomoniPresident Emomali RahmonTajikistan's highest distinction20 February 2008Order of Outstanding MeritPresident Islam Karimov13 May 2009Order of the Precious WandPresident Nambaryn Enkhbayar2 April 2010Order of the LiberatorPresident Hugo ChávezVenezuela's highest distinction26 June 2012Order of the State of Palestineالرئيس يقلد نظيره الروسي وسام نجمة فلسطينPresident Mahmoud AbbasPalestine's highest distinction14 March 2013Order of the Friendship of PeoplesPresident Alexander Lukashenko4 October 2013Order of Saint-CharlesPrince AlbertMonaco's highest decoration11 July 2014Order of José MartíPresident of the State Council & First Secretary of the Communist Party Raúl CastroCuba's highest decoration16 October 2014Order of the Republic of SerbiaPresident Tomislav NikolićGrand Collar, Serbia's highest award28 September 2017Grand Cross of the National Order of MeritPresident Alpha Condé1 October 2017President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow24 October 2017Grand Collar of the Order of Makarios IIIPresident Nicos Anastasiades22 November 2017Order of ManasPresident Almazbek Atambayev8 June 2018Order of FriendshipPresident & General Secretary of the Communist Party Xi JinpingPeople's Republic of China's highest order of honour23 August 2018Order of UatsamongaУказ «О награждении Орденом «Уацамонга» Путина В.В.»President Anatoly BibilovHighest award of South Ossetia24 August 2018Владимир Путин удостоен высшей госнаграды АбхазииPresident Raul KhajimbaHighest award of Abkhazia4 April 2019Order of Agostinho NetoPresident João Lourenço27 May 2019Order of NazarbayevElbasy Nursultan Nazarbayev6 October 2022Order of Highest Friendship President Shavkat Mirziyoyev8 January 2023Order of the Republika Srpska on necklacePresident Milorad DodikRepublika of Srpska's highest medal of honor, awarded for President Putin's “patriotic concern and love” for the Serb-controlled half of Bosnia18 June 2024Order of Kim Il SungPresident of the State Affairs & General Secretary of the Worker's Party Kim Jong UnKim Jong-un presented Putin with the highest state award of the DPRK Does not comply with the laws of the DPRK
Honorary doctorates DateUniversity/ InstituteCountryNotes2000Turkmen State UniversityTurkmenistan2000Jawaharlal Nehru UniversityIndia2001Baku Slavic UniversityAzerbaijan2001Yerevan State UniversityArmenia2001Athens UniversityGreeceRevoked in 20222009Veliko Tarnovo UniversityBulgariaRevoked in 20222010Yong In UniversitySouth Korea2011University of BelgradeSerbia2018University of PeloponneseGreeceRevoked in 20222019Tsinghua UniversityChina
Other awards YearAwardNotes2001Olympic OrderRevoked in 202220 February 2006Order of Sheikh ul-IslamA Muslim order, awarded for his role in interfaith dialogue between Muslims and Christians in the region.2008The honorary citizenship of Novi SadThe second-most populous city in Serbia.24 March 2011Order of Saint SavaSerbian Orthodox Church's highest distinction.15 November 2011Confucius Peace PrizeThe China International Peace Research Centre awarded the Confucius Peace Prize to Putin, citing as reason Putin's opposition to NATO's Libya bombing in 2011 while also paying tribute to his decision to go to war in Chechnya in 1999. According to the committee, Putin's "Iron hand and toughness revealed in this war impressed the Russians a lot, and he was regarded to be capable of bringing safety and stability to Russia".November 2013Honorary 9th Dan Black Belt - World TaekwondoRevoked in 2022
Recognition YearAward/RecognitionDescription19 December 2007Time: Person of the Year"His final year as Russia's president has been his most successful yet. At home, he secured his political future. Abroad, he expanded his outsize—if not always benign—influence on global affairs."24 December 2007Expert: Person of the YearA Russian business-oriented weekly magazine named Putin as its Person of the Year.5 October 2008Vladimir Putin AvenueThe central street of Grozny, the capital of Russia's Republic of Chechnya, was renamed from the Victory Avenue to the Vladimir Putin Avenue, as ordered by the Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov.17 February 2011Vladimir Putin PeakThe parliament of Kyrgyzstan named a peak in Tian Shan mountains Vladimir Putin Peak.2020Ig Nobel Prize in medical informationSatirical award that was shared with Jair Bolsonaro, Boris Johnson, Narendra Modi, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Alexander Lukashenko, Donald Trump, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow for using the COVID-19 pandemic to teach the world that politicians can have a more immediate effect on life and death than scientists and doctors can.
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