Chirac bestows highest Legion of Honor decoration on Putin - Monsters and Critics.com

Sep 23, 2006, 1:10 GMT printer email RSS Talkback Paris - French President Jacques Chirac on Friday decorated his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, with the highest Legion of Honor designation, the Grand Cross, the French president's office said. Putin was awarded the honour 'to salute his contribution to the friendship between France and Russia,' Chirac's spokesman, Jerome Bonnafont, said. According to Bonnafont, Putin responded by saying that this was a friendship that was 'dear to his heart ...