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Romanian President Decorates Russian Writer Solzhenitsyn Posthumously

Romanian president Traian Basescu Wednesday decorated posthumously Russian writer and dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn with the “Star of Romania” national order, in rank of Great Cross.
Romanian President Decorates Russian Writer Solzhenitsyn Posthumously
06 aug. 2008, 14:15,

Solzhenitsyn, Nobel Prize winner, was decorated for his courage and dignity and his contribution to world literature, the president’s office said in a statement.

Solzhenitsyn, who died Sunday night at age 89, was buried Wednesday at Moscow‘s historic Donskoy Monastery.