On August 26, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on awarding the Order for Services to the Fatherland, IV degree, to the chairman of the Halk Maslakhaty (upper house of parliament) and ex-president of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov . Document published on the Official Internet Portal of Legal Information of Russia.
The decree states that Berdymukhammedov was awarded the order "for his great contribution to strengthening the strategic partnership between the Russian Federation and Turkmenistan."
Help Wiki . The highest degree of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" is the 1st degree. Rewarding is carried out, as a rule, sequentially, from the lowest degree to the highest. Persons presented to the Order of the IV degree must be awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky.
In May of this year, during a visit to Kazan, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov received the Order of Merit for the Republic of Tatarstan. On the same day, Putin awarded Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedov with the Order of Friendship.
A week before, the Chairman of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation , Valentina Matvienko , presented Berdimuhamedov Sr. with the anniversary medal “IPA CIS. 30 years".
In October 2019, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov was awarded the medal of the Interstate Fund for Humanitarian Cooperation of the CIS Member States (IFHC) "For merits in the development of humanitarian cooperation."
In June 2018, on the birthday of Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, Vladimir Putin awarded his grandfather Berdimuhammed Annayev with the medal "For Courage".
A year earlier, on Berdymukhamedov Sr.'s 60th birthday, Putin awarded him the Order of Alexander Nevsky.
Source: Chronicles of Turkmenistan