Putin grants state honour to Dmitri Hvorostovsky

Putin grants state honour to Dmitri Hvorostovsky

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norman lebrecht

September 12, 2017

The Russian president has awarded the great baritone the Order of Merit for the Fatherland of the IV degree.

The honour is part of a batch of awards to senior Russian artists. Hvorostovsky, who is suffering from a brain tumour, is remarkable in that he has stood aloof from Russian politics and resisted the embrace of the Putin regime.

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