Artur Chilingarov, President Dmitry Medvedev's envoy to the Arctic and Antarctica for international cooperation and member of the State Duma, with his wife, Tatyana, and their children Ksenia and Nikolai, at the French Embassy at a ceremony of awarding Chilingarov the French National Order of the Legion of Honour.

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French ambassador to Russia Jean de Gliniasty, left, and Artur Chilingarov, President Dmitry Medvedev's envoy to the Arctic and Antarctica for international cooperation and member of the State Duma, right, after a ceremony of awarding Chilingarov the French National Order of the Legion of Honour.

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Artur Chilingarov, President Dmitry Medvedev's envoy to the Arctic and Antarctica for international cooperation and member of the State Duma, awarded the French National Order of the Legion of Honour.

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Artur Chilingarov, President Dmitry Medvedev's envoy to the Arctic and Antarctica for international cooperation and member of the State Duma, right, and French ambassador to Russia Jean de Gliniasty, left, after a ceremony of awarding Chilingarov the French National Order of the Legion of Honour.

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French ambassador to Russia Jean de Gliniasty, pictured, at a ceremony of awarding Artur Chilingarov, President Dmitry Medvedev's envoy to the Arctic and Antarctica for international cooperation and member of the State Duma, the French National Order of the Legion of Honour.

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Alisher Usmanov, center, chairman of the board of guardians of the Russian Fencing Federation, at the French Embassy at a ceremony of awarding Artur Chilingarov, President Dmitry Medvedev's envoy to the Arctic and Antarctica for international cooperation and member of the State Duma, the French National Order of the Legion of Honour.

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Grigory Ivliev, chairman of the State Duma Committee on Culture, left, and French ambassador to Russia Jean de Gliniasty, right, after a ceremony of awarding Artur Chilingarov, President Dmitry Medvedev's envoy to the Arctic and Antarctica for international cooperation and member of the State Duma, the French National Order of the Legion of Honour.

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