A conductor, artistic director, and general director of the Mariinsky Theatre, general director of the Bolshoy Theatre, People's Artist of Russia, Hero of Labour of Russia. UNESCO Artist for Peace. He is the founder of prestigious international music festivals and co-chairman of the organizing committee of the International Tchaikovsky Competition. He has been awarded high state honors and honorary titles by Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Japan, Armenia, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, and several other countries.

Chairman and founder of the Pierre de Gaulle Foundation for Peace and Friendship between Peoples

Professor at the University of Buenos Aires. A public figure, from December 2015 to March 2022, director of the famous Argentine opera house "Colon". She was awarded the Order of Friendship of the Russian Federation

A political and public figure. Deputy of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus, Deputy Chairman of the Standing Committee on International Affairs

Writer, translator, public figure. Doctor of Philology, Professor, former head of the Chinese Association for the Study of Russian Literature, Vice-President of the Chinese Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Awarded the Order of Friendship of the Russian Federation

Historian, novelist and biographer. She held positions in the Government of India, headed the Archaeological Service of the country, and is known as a prominent representative of the intellectual and literary elite of India

Cosmonaut pilot, Hero of the Russian Federation. People's Hero of Kazakhstan, Doctor of Technical Sciences. Ex‑Chairman of the National Space Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan, former deputy of the Senate of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Honored Worker of the Diplomatic Service of the Russian Federation

Statesman and politician. Member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress, Deputy of the National Assembly of South Africa. Since 2001, he has held various ministerial positions in the Government of South Africa, enjoys high moral authority in the country and on the African continent

Statesman, political and public figure. Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation (1999), President of the Russian Book Union, Chairman of the Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society

General Director of L.N. Tolstoy State Museum, President of the International Association of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature, President of the Russian Society of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature, Russian journalist and essayist. Great-grandson of L.N.Tolstoy

Statesman, political and public figure, Prime Minister of Japan (2009-2010)