09 June 2011, 19:00

Svetlana Gannushkina will become Holder of the Order of the Legion of Honour

Svetlana Gannushkina, member of "Memorial" Human Rights Center, Chairperson of the Committee "Civil Support", member of the Presidential Council of Assistance to Development of the Institutions of Civil Society and Human Rights, whose activities is to a great extent connected with North-Caucasian republics will become Holder of the Order of the Legion of Honour today.

The solemn award ceremony of the human rights activist will start in the Embassy of France at 18:30. Ambassador of France in Russia Jean de Gliniasty will hand Svetlana Alexeevna the award.

Svetlana Gannushkina received a letter of information that she was elected Holder of the Order by a decree of the President of France in December, 2010, HRC "Memorial" reports.

It should be reminded that on December, 11, 2006, Officer's insignia of the Order were handed to Chairman of "Memorial" Sergey Kovalev. During the award ceremony it was declared that the prize was awarded for liberation of one and a half thousand hostages from the hospital in Budennovsk in 1995. 

See earlier reports:

"Society of Dagestan is on the brink of civil war: over 2000 disappearances remain unsolved," "Svetlana Gannushkina offers to hold post-conflict children's camps in the Caucasus," "Committee Against Torture receives FrontLine Defenders Award for work in Chechnya," "A Russian non-governmental organization awarded a prize of PACE for investigating crimes in Chechnya."

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