Viktor Yushchenko - Honours and Awards

Honours and Awards

  • Commander Grand Cross with Chain of the Order of Three Stars (Latvia, 2006)
  • Grand Cross with Golden Chain of the Order of Vytautas the Great (Lithuania, 2006)
  • Knight Grand Cross of the Grand Order of King Tomislav ("For outstanding contribution to the promotion of friendship and development co-operation between the Republic of Croatia and the Republic of Ukraine." - June 6, 2007)
  • Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2009, Poland)
  • Order "For Merits" of Class III (1996, Ukraine)
  • The Liberty Medal- US Consititution Center, Philadelphia, PA) (2005, USA)
  • Order of Heydar Aliyev (2008, Azerbaijan)
  • Order of the White Rose of Finland (2006)
  • Order of the Golden Fleece (2009, Georgia)
  • Order of Victory them. St. George (2009, Georgia)
  • Order of the White Eagle (2005, Poland)
  • Royal Order of the Seraphim (2008, Sweden)
  • Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (2008, Hungary)
  • Quadriga (2006, Germany)

Named Man of the Year 2004 by Wprost. Included in the 2005 Time 100, an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, as assembled by Time.

Honorary doctorates from the University of Maria Curie-Sklodowska (2000) and the Catholic University of Lublin (2009).

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