Updated: 13 May, 2006

Ukraine

• State Awards of Ukraine President of Ukraine Website Ukrainian Version

• Orders, Decorations and Medals of Ukraine Megan Robertson

• Decorations of Ukraine Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

• Medals of Ukraine   Independent Ukraine 1918 Ukrainian SSR Republic of Ukraine Ministries and Departments Public Organizations Yuri Yashnev

• Ribbons of Ukraine Antonio Prieto Barrio

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• Ribbons of Ukraine President of Ukraine Website

• Decree by the President of Ukraine On the Institution of the Medal For Military Service to Ukraine, Award of the President of Ukraine.

• Ukraine honors champion Klitschko World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko was acclaimed on Monday as the man who put Ukraine on the boxing map and salvaged the family reputation. President Leonid Kuchma gave the boxer one of Ukraine's highest honors -- the Order of Bravery. edition.cnn.com 26 Apr 04

• More Than 300 Jewish Veterans Receive Presidential Medals A ceremony took place in Odessa to present numerous former ghetto prisoners and prisoners of Nazi concentration camps with the Presidential Memorial Medals bearing the inscription "To a Defender of the Fatherland". Local veterans of one of the city's neighborhoods gathered in the hall of the Jewish Cultural Society for this event, while their peers from three other neighborhoods received this honorable award the day before. In all, more than 300 Odessa residents received the medals, including several persons having the title of the Righteous of the Nations for saving Jews during World War Two. fjc.ru 4 Apr 05

• Beheaded journalist given Ukraine's highest honour Journalist Georgiy Gongadze, whose murder in 2000 jolted the administration of Ukraine's former President Leonid Kuchma, was posthumously awarded the country's highest honour. "I have signed a decree presenting the Hero of Ukraine award (posthumous) to Georgiy Gongadze," said President Viktor Yushchenko, who won last December's election on a wave of protests against Kuchma. "He gave his young life for our freedom and independence," he told an awards ceremony. alertnet.org 24 Aug 05

• Ukraine’s Yushchenko Awarded 2005 Liberty Medal Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, awarded the 2005 Philadelphia Liberty Medal, said he was accepting it on behalf of millions of Ukrainians at home and abroad who fought for their country’s liberation and against corruption, mosnews.com 18 Sep 05