Six Russian citizens were awarded the Order of the Rising Sun by the government of Japan, as stated in a Government Resolution issued on Wednesday.
Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General; Anatoly Torkunov, Rector of MGIMO-University,Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Valery Fokin, Artistic Director of the Alexandrinsky Theater; Valentin Sergienko, Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences; and Gennady Lazarev, President of Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service; were honored with Orders of the 3rd Class, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon.
Six Russian citizens were awarded the Order of the Rising Sun by the government of Japan, as stated in a Government Resolution issued on Wednesday.
Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General; Anatoly Torkunov, Rector of MGIMO-University,Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Valery Fokin, Artistic Director of the Alexandrinsky Theater; Valentin Sergienko, Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences; and Gennady Lazarev, President of Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service; were honored with Orders of the 3rd Class, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon.
Andrey Kortunov and Anatoly Torkunov, RIAC Members, were awarded the Order for their contribution to the development of mutual understanding and scientific exchanges between Japan and Russia.
In addition, the Order of the 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette, was awarded to Viktor Korsunov, former Vice-Rector of Sakhalin State University.
A total of 4,036 Japanese nationals and foreigners received the awards, including Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of the U.S. President John F. Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, and Olivia Newton-John, Australian actress.
Previously, the list of the awardees was published on April 29. The Orders of the Rising Sun were awarded to five Russian citizens, including Yuri Bashmet, famous violist and conductor.
The Order of the Rising Sun was established in 1875 and has eight classes. Since the second half of the previous century, it has been awarded to dozens of citizens of the USSR and Russia, mainly to the representatives of academic and artistic communities, experts in oriental studies, and researchers of Japan.
