The corresponding decree was published on the portal of legal information.
"For merits in strengthening the rule of law, protecting the rights and interests of citizens, long-term conscientious work to award the Order of Honor to Denis Gennadievich Popov - the prosecutor of the city of Moscow," the document says.
Earlier, Putin signed a decree on awarding Patriarch Kirill with the Order of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called for his contribution to the preservation of spiritual and cultural traditions.