Singer Stas Mikhailov and former press secretary of Nashi Kristina Potupchik were awarded in the Kremlin

On April 10, the first deputy head of the presidential administration, Sergei Kiriyenko, presented Nashi press secretary Kristina Potupchik with a medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 1st degree, and noted singer Stas Mikhailov with gratitude from the president. RBC about this Participants of a closed ceremony in the Kremlin told .

In total, 50 people were awarded at the ceremony, among them deputies and senators, public and cultural figures, including Hermitage director Mikhail Piotrovsky and Moscow State University rector Viktor Sadovnichy, who, like Mikhailov, were President Putin's confidants in the presidential election .

Kiriyenko also awarded Ivan Melnikov, Vice-Speaker of the Duma from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, with the Order of Friendship, former world chess champion Anatoly Karpov with an honorary diploma from the President, Senator Valery Ryazansky, with the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree.

In addition to them, United Russia deputy Viktor Pinsky, as well as senators Evgeny Bushmin, Rostislav Goldstein, Vyacheslav Timchenko, Andrei Kutepov, Sergei Lisovsky and Igor Morozov were noted at the ceremony.