Chairman of the Russian State Duma Sergei Naryshkin (left) and founder of the Moscow House of Photography and Multimedia Art Museum director Olga Sviblova (right) during the awarding ceremony Head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications (Rospechat) Mikhail Seslavinskiy (center) and Chairman of the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) Tatyana Anodina signs Chevalier of the Order of Honourable Legion. The ceremony was held at the residence of the Ambassador of France in Russia.

Chairman of the Russian State Duma Sergei Naryshkin (left) and founder of the Moscow House of Photography and Multimedia Art Museum director Olga Sviblova (right) during the awarding ceremony Head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications (Rospechat) Mikhail Seslavinskiy (center) and Chairman of the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) Tatyana Anodina signs Chevalier of the Order of Honourable Legion. The ceremony was held at the residence of the Ambassador of France in Russia.

Founder of the Moscow House of Photography and Multimedia Art Museum director Olga Sviblova (left) and Russian president's special representative for international cultural cooperation Mikhail Shvydkoj (right) during the awarding ceremony Head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications (Rospechat) Mikhail Seslavinskiy (center) and Chairman of the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) Tatyana Anodina signs Chevalier of the Order of Honourable Legion. The ceremony was held at the residence of the Ambassador of France in Russia.

From left to right: Chief editor of the radio station "Echo of Moscow" Alexei Venediktov, Chairman of the Moscow Helsinki Group Lyudmila Asekseeva and the co-founder and publisher of the magazine The New Times Irena Lesnevskaya during the awarding ceremony Head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications (Rospechat) Mikhail Seslavinskiy (center) and Chairman of the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) Tatyana Anodina signs Chevalier of the Order of Honourable Legion. The ceremony was held at the residence of the Ambassador of France in Russia.

Journalist Yevgenia Milova (left) and chief editor of the radio station "Echo of Moscow" Alexei Venediktov (right) during the awarding ceremony Head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications (Rospechat) Mikhail Seslavinskiy (center) and Chairman of the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) Tatyana Anodina signs Chevalier of the Order of Honourable Legion. The ceremony was held at the residence of the Ambassador of France in Russia.

President of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Vladimir Fortov (left) and chief editor of the radio station "Echo of Moscow" Alexei Venediktov (right) during the awarding ceremony Head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications (Rospechat) Mikhail Seslavinskiy (center) and Chairman of the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) Tatyana Anodina signs Chevalier of the Order of Honourable Legion. The ceremony was held at the residence of the Ambassador of France in Russia.

From left to right: Chairman of the Russian Union of Armenians Ara Abrahamyan, founder of the Moscow House of Photography and Multimedia Art Museum director Olga Sviblova, Russian presidential aide Andrei Fursenko and former director of the State Museum of Fine Arts Pushkin Irina Antonova during the awarding ceremony Head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications (Rospechat) Mikhail Seslavinskiy (center) and Chairman of the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) Tatyana Anodina signs Chevalier of the Order of Honourable Legion. The ceremony was held at the residence of the Ambassador of France in Russia.

Fashion designer Valentin Yudashkin (left) and Chairman of the State Duma of Russia Sergei Naryshkin (right) during the awarding ceremony Head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications (Rospechat) Mikhail Seslavinskiy (center) and Chairman of the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) Tatyana Anodina signs Chevalier of the Order of Honourable Legion. The ceremony was held at the residence of the Ambassador of France in Russia.

Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honor, General Jean-Louis Zhorzhelen (right) during the awarding ceremony Head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications (Rospechat) Mikhail Seslavinskiy and Chairman of the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) Tatyana Anodina (left) signs Chevalier of the Order of Honourable Legion. The ceremony was held at the residence of the Ambassador of France in Russia.

Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honor, General Jean-Louis Zhorzhelen (right) during the awarding ceremony Head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications (Rospechat) Mikhail Seslavinskiy and Chairman of the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) Tatyana Anodina (left) signs Chevalier of the Order of Honourable Legion. The ceremony was held at the residence of the Ambassador of France in Russia.

Awarding ceremony Chairman of the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) Tatyana Anodina signs Chevalier of the Order of Honourable Legion. The ceremony was held at the residence of the Ambassador of France in Russia.

French Ambassador to Russia Jean de Gliniasty (left) and Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honor, General Jean-Louis Zhorzhelen (right) during the awarding ceremony Head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications (Rospechat) Mikhail Seslavinskiy and Chairman of the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) Tatyana Anodina signs Chevalier of the Order of Honourable Legion. The ceremony was held at the residence of the Ambassador of France in Russia.

Fashion designer Valentin Yudashkin (left) and Chairman of the State Duma of Russia Sergei Naryshkin (right) during the awarding ceremony Head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications (Rospechat) Mikhail Seslavinskiy (center) and Chairman of the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) Tatyana Anodina signs Chevalier of the Order of Honourable Legion. The ceremony was held at the residence of the Ambassador of France in Russia.

Chairman of the State Duma of Russia Sergei Naryshkin (right) during the awarding ceremony Head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications (Rospechat) Mikhail Seslavinskiy (left). The ceremony was held at the residence of the Ambassador of France in Russia.

From left to right: Russian president's special representative for international cultural cooperation Mikhail Shvydkoy, Chairman of the Russian State Duma (SD) Sergey Naryshkin and member of the SD Committee on Construction and Land Affairs Vladimir Resin during the awarding ceremony Head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications (Rospechat) Mikhail Seslavinskiy and Chairman of the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) Tatyana Anodina signs Chevalier of the Order of Honourable Legion. The ceremony was held at the residence of the Ambassador of France in Russia.

French Ambassador to Russia Jean de Gliniasty (left) and Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honor, General Jean-Louis Zhorzhelen (right) during the awarding ceremony Head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications (Rospechat) Mikhail Seslavinskiy (center) and Chairman of the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) Tatyana Anodina signs Chevalier of the Order of Honourable Legion. The ceremony was held at the residence of the Ambassador of France in Russia.

Director of strategic directions of the publishing house (PH) "Kommersant" Victor Lochak (left) and advisor to the Russian President Igor Levitin (right) during the awarding ceremony Head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications (Rospechat) Mikhail Seslavinskiy and Chairman of the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) Tatyana Anodina signs Chevalier of the Order of Honourable Legion. The ceremony was held at the residence of the Ambassador of France in Russia.

Russian presidential aide Andrei Fursenko (left) during the awarding ceremony Head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications (Rospechat) Mikhail Seslavinskiy (left) and Chairman of the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) Tatyana Anodina signs Chevalier of the Order of Honourable Legion. The ceremony was held at the residence of the Ambassador of France in Russia.

President of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) Mikhail Pogosyan (left) and director of strategic directions of the publishing house (PH) "Kommersant" Victor Lochak (right) during the awarding ceremony Head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications (Rospechat) Mikhail Seslavinskiy and Chairman of the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) Tatyana Anodina signs Chevalier of the Order of Honourable Legion. The ceremony was held at the residence of the Ambassador of France in Russia.

From left to right: chief editor of "Moskovsky Komsomolets" Pavel Gusev, Chairman of the Public Chamber of the Moscow region Mikhail Gusman, Deputy Director General of ITAR-TASS, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Russia Bul-Bul Ogly during the awarding ceremony Head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications (Rospechat) Mikhail Seslavinskiy and Chairman of the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) Tatyana Anodina signs Chevalier of the Order of Honourable Legion. The ceremony was held at the residence of the Ambassador of France in Russia.

Awarding ceremony Head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications (Rospechat) Mikhail Seslavinskiy (center) and Chairman of the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) Tatyana Anodina signs Chevalier of the Order of Honourable Legion was held at the residence of the Ambassador of France in Russia.

Fashion designer Valentin Yudashkin (left) and French Ambassador to Russia Jean de Gliniasty (right) during the awarding ceremony Head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications (Rospechat) Mikhail Seslavinskiy and Chairman of the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) Tatyana Anodina signs Chevalier of the Order of Honourable Legion. The ceremony was held at the residence of the Ambassador of France in Russia.