Orders, decorations, and medals

The executive director of M3 Communications Group, Inc. and lead PR expert Maxim Behar tells about his meeting with the politician, who changed the course of history - Mikhail Gorbachev.

No one in the world, not even the best Soviet experts, expected a politician who would change the world in just a few days.

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev had "an enormous influence on the course of world history". This was said by the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, who expressed his condolences to the relatives of the deceased Gorbachev, Sky News reported. "He found solutions to urgent problems in his own way," Putin said in his statement.

Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his "deepest condolences" on the death of the former president of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed that Mikhail Gorbachev had a "huge impact on the course of world history", in a condolence telegram sent on Wednesday.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has extended his congratulations to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on his country's control of Lachin and other cities in a phone conversation.

According to a statement by the Presidential Communications Directorate, Erdoğan spoke on the phone with Aliyev over the weekend to address the bilateral relations and recent regional developments.

The president of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, said on Sunday that his country will sell electricity to Serbia on "favourable terms", Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic's office announced.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Aug. 20 thanked Türkiye for its "pivotal role" in the signing of the recent grain export deal.

His remarks came during a joint press conference with Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar at the Joint Coordination Center. 

Here are the highlights of events related to the war in Ukraine over the past 24 hours:

Zelensky, Erdogan and Guterres will talk in Lviv

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrived in Ukraine for a tripartite meeting. In a few hours in Lviv, he will meet with the presidents of Ukraine and Turkey.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have accepted an invition from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to meet on Aug. 18 to review the deal allowing Ukrainian grain to be shipped to world markets to help alleviate the global grain crisis and discuss ways to end the six-month-old war.

Here are the highlights of events related to the war in Ukraine over the past 24 hours:

Shoigu and Guterres discussed the security situation at the Zaporizhzhia NPP

French Border police at the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris shot - and killed - man who was wielding a knife in the public area of the airport.
"Police officers shot and killed a man who brandished a knife at the Charles de Gaulle airport", the police said on Twitter.