The corresponding decree was published on the official Internet portal of legal information.

“For courage, courage and selflessness shown in the course of carrying out tasks to ensure the protection of the rights and freedoms of compatriots, award the Order of Courage to Arsen Sergeevich Pavlov (posthumously),” the document says. 

Arsen Pavlov died on October 16, 2016 in an explosion in the elevator of a building in the center of Donetsk.

War correspondent Semyon Pegov, specially for RT, interviewed the widow of Arsen Pavlov (Motorola) Elena.