OREANDA-NEWS. January 16, 2012. By the decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated 16 December 2011 NR 1640, Mr Sergey Skuratov, Director General of Ural Airlines, has been awarded the Order of Friendship. Igor Levitin, the Minister of Transport of Russia, has congratulated the airline and Sergey Skuratov personally:  ‘I congratulate you on the state award, the New Year and Christmas.  I wish you good health, happiness and further success in your work for the benefit of Russia’, the letter of congratulation says.

The Order of Friendship was established by the Decree No. 442 of the RF President on 2 March 1994. The Order of Friendship is awarded for special merits in strengthening peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding between the nations; for fruitful activity in bringing together and enriching the cultures of peoples and ethnicities; for preservation, augmentation and popularization of cultural and historical legacy of Russia; for major contribution to large scale economic projects implemented jointly with the Russian Federation and for the attraction of foreign capital to the economy of the Russian Federation; for facilitation in the establishment of the civil society institutions and development of democratic values; and for large scale charitable activity.