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. 

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