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In the best Soviet Traditions, let me celebrate the New Year by awarding
barnstars for the best contributions during the last few months:
User:Ghirlandajo gets St. Vladimir Barnstar with diamonds in recognition of his leadership on
Portal:Russia project and his articles on Medieval Russia.
User:Irpen gets the WikiDefender Barnstar for his heroic work protecting Wikipedia from the Bad Faith Edits and Vandalism.
User:Punkmorten gets the Gold Run Barnstar for his articles on Russian and Soviet athletes.
User:Camerafiend gets the Rotating Barnstar for his articles on Moscow Metro
User:Vald gets the Exceptional Newcomer Award for his articles on Russian poets and translations of Russian poetry into English
I also recieved a
barnstar from
User:Ghirlandajo on the Catholic Christmas Day. I am really proud of it and hope to live up to this award.
The next awarding ceremony would be at some other Soviet holiday, probably the
March 8abakharev 07:39, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
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User:Khoikhoi got
Order of Friendship of Peoples, as per statute, "for accomplishments in strengthening of inter-ethnic and international friendship and cooperation". It was a relatively minor Order in the
Soviet Union, but I regard it as one of the highest awards on Wikipedia
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This time the
New Year comes earlier as I intend to take a break. The national decorations seem to be too controversial, so now I am distributing only barnstars:
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Lets celebrate one year of my
mop: It looks like it was an infinite time ago.
The Original barnstars goes to
User:Colchicum for his great contributions to the History of 21st century Russia,
User:Mhym and
User:Errabee for their persistent work on Russian articles,
User:Bookworm857158367 for his work on the Romanov family and their friends and
User:Yury Tarasievich for his Belarus-related articles.
I am sure I forgot somebody who truly deserved a barnstar, may add it later or another day.
Alex Bakharev 12:09, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
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Lets celebrate the Holidays. Christmas (Gregorian and Julian), New Year, Hanukkah, Winter Solstice, Kwanzaa - whatever is applicable:
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User:Slim Virgin receives the Protector of Wiki barnstar for her work of making Wikipedia the cleaner workplace for everyone
Alex Bakharev (
talk) 00:36, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
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