President Boris Yeltsin awarding Minister of Defence

Moscow, Russia. President Boris Yeltsin (L) awards No. 2 President Gold Medal to Minister of Defence, General Pavel Grachev, on February 23, 1996 to mark the Defender Of The Fatherland Day [originally celebrated as the anniversary of the Red Army and eventually becoming the men's day in broader sense]. Alexander Sentsov/ITAR-TASS

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Becoming Broader Celebrated Defender Eventually Fatherland Grachev Pavel Sense Sentsov

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