# List of awards and honours received by Vladimir Putin

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Vladimir Putin is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has been serving as the president of Russia since 2012, having previously served between 2000 and 2008. He was the prime minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012. He has received a number of awards and honours from within Russia, from academic institutions, and from foreign politicians and countries.
Note: Shows awards and honours that were revoked in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

## State honours

| Date | Country | Decoration | Presenter | Notes |
| 7 March 2001 | Vietnam | Order of Ho Chi Minh | President Trần Đức Lương | Vietnam's second-highest distinction |
| 6 January 2004 | Kazakhstan | Order of the Golden Eagle | President Nursultan Nazarbayev | Kazakhstan's highest distinction |
| 22 September 2006 | France | Légion d'honneur, Grand-Croix | President Jacques Chirac | Grand-Croix (Grand Cross) rank is the highest French decoration |
| 6 October 2007 | Tajikistan | Order of Ismoili Somoni | President Emomali Rahmon | Tajikistan's highest distinction |
| 12 February 2007 | Saudi Arabia | Order of Abdulaziz al Saud | King Abdullah | Saudi Arabia's highest civilian award |
| 10 September 2007 | United Arab Emirates | Order of Zayed | Sheikh Khalifa | UAE's highest civil decoration |
| 2 April 2010 | Venezuela | Order of the Liberator | President Hugo Chávez | Venezuela's highest distinction |
| 14 March 2013 | Belarus | Order of the Friendship of Peoples | President Alexander Lukashenko | |
| 4 October 2013 | Monaco | Order of Saint-Charles | Prince Albert | Monaco's highest decoration |
| 11 July 2014 | Cuba | Order of José Martí | President Raúl Castro | Cuba's highest decoration |
| 16 October 2014 | Serbia | Order of the Republic of Serbia | President Tomislav Nikolić | Grand Collar, Serbia's highest award |
| 28 September 2017 | Guinea | Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit | President Alpha Condé | |
| 3 October 2017 | Turkmenistan | Order "For contribution to the development of cooperation" [ru] | President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow | |
| 24 October 2017 | Cyprus | Grand Collar of the Order of Makarios III | President Nicos Anastasiades | |
| 22 November 2017 | Kyrgyzstan | Order of Manas | President Almazbek Atambayev | |
| 8 June 2018 | China | Order of Friendship | President Xi Jinping | People's Republic of China's highest order of honour |
| 4 April 2019 | Angola | Order of Agostinho Neto | President João Lourenço | |
| 27 May 2019 | Kazakhstan | Order of Nazarbayev | Elbasy Nursultan Nazarbayev | |
| 8 January 2023 | Republika Srpska | Order of the Republika Srpska on necklace | President Milorad Dodik | Republika of Srpska's highest medal of honor, awarded for President Putin's “patriotic concern and love” for the Serb-controlled half of Bosnia |
| 18 June 2024 | North Korea | Order of Kim Il Sung | President of the State Affairs Kim Jong Un | |

## Honorary doctorates

| Date | University/ Institute | Country | Notes |
| 2000 | Turkmen State University | Turkmenistan | |
| 2000 | Jawaharlal Nehru University | India | |
| 2001 | Baku Slavic University | Azerbaijan | |
| 2001 | Yerevan State University | Armenia | |
| 2001 | Athens University | Greece | Revoked in 2022 |
| 2009 | Veliko Tarnovo University | Bulgaria | Revoked in 2022 |
| 2010 | Yong In University | South Korea | |
| 2011 | University of Belgrade | Serbia | |
| 2018 | University of Peloponnese | Greece | Revoked in 2022 |
| 2019 | Tsinghua University | China | |

## Other awards

| Year | Award | Notes |
| 2001 | Olympic Order | Revoked in 2022 |
| 20 February 2006 | Order of Sheikh ul-Islam | A Muslim order, awarded for his role in interfaith dialogue between Muslims and Christians in the region. |
| 2008 | The honorary citizenship of Novi Sad | The second-most populous city in Serbia. |
| 24 March 2011 | Order of Saint Sava | Serbian Orthodox Church's highest distinction. |
| 15 November 2011 | Confucius Peace Prize | The China International Peace Research Centre awarded the Confucius Peace Prize to Putin, citing as reason Putin's opposition to NATO's Libya bombing in 2011 while also paying tribute to his decision to go to war in Chechnya in 1999. According to the committee, Putin's "Iron hand and toughness revealed in this war impressed the Russians a lot, and he was regarded to be capable of bringing safety and stability to Russia". |
| November 2013 | Honorary 9th Dan Black Belt - World Taekwondo | Revoked in 2022 |

## Recognition

| Year | Award/Recognition | Description |
| 19 December 2007 | Time: Person of the Year | "His final year as Russia's president has been his most successful yet. At home, he secured his political future. Abroad, he expanded his outsize—if not always benign—influence on global affairs." |
| 24 December 2007 | Expert: Person of the Year | A Russian business-oriented weekly magazine named Putin as its Person of the Year. |
| 5 October 2008 | Vladimir Putin Avenue | The central street of Grozny, the capital of Russia's Republic of Chechnya, was renamed from the Victory Avenue to the Vladimir Putin Avenue, as ordered by the Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov. |
| 17 February 2011 | Vladimir Putin Peak | The parliament of Kyrgyzstan named a peak in Tian Shan mountains Vladimir Putin Peak. |
| 2020 | Ig Nobel Prize in medical infromation | Satirical award that was shared with Jair Bolsonaro, Boris Johnson, Narendra Modi, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Alexander Lukashenko, Donald Trump, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow for using the COVID-19 pandemic to teach the world that politicians can have a more immediate effect on life and death than scientists and doctors can. |