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From: Mirjana Petrovic <almirja@cotton.vislab.olemiss.edu>

"ANDREW THE FIRST-CALLED" DECORATION - TO REPUBLIKA SRPSKA PRESI- DENT

This was said in an official explanation by the "St. Andrew the Firstcalled" Fund for Slavonic Culture and Literacy for decorating Dr Karadzic with the "St. Andrew the Firstcalled" order upon the proposal of the International Found of Slavonic Culture and Literacy.

"A talented physician, erudite whom the circumstances brought to the duty of commanderin-chief, but who in the brutal war times did not loose the essential human qualities - calmness and goodness.

Each person, regardlessly of his age or title, wishing to speak with Dr Karadzic would find in him a good listener. The president is known as a politician who is striving that all relevant decisions to be brought mirroring the people's will", it was concluded in the explanation, in addition to:

"Being the relative of Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic - the creator of the Serb cyrillic, dictionary, grammar and historic document ing (he could be said the Serb Dalj), Radovan Karadzic signifi cantly contributed to the Serbian culture, which is still be lieved to be one of the greatest cultures in the world, the cultures, based on the Evangelist comprehension of the world.

"A huge credit must be paid to Karadzic, as a sincere be liever talented for a leader, for his education of children and the youth in Orthodox Faith. The God's law is included into all school programmes."

"We are convinced that the decoration of Dr Radovan Karadzic with the St. Apostolic Andrew the Firstcalled order will not only help the bolstering of spiritual relation between the Rus sian and Serbian peoples, but will build up the Orthodox spirit with the Bosnian Serbs who are counterbalancing the growth of the "New World Order".

While addressing to laureates, Aleksey Zotov, hierarch from the Russian Orthodox Church Moscow Patriarchy Department for Relations with Armed Forces and Security, stated:

"Russia is to resurrect with the "Cross of Resurrection", to suppress the death by death, allowing you to feel again as great and deserving sons of our Lord Jesus Christ".

"Receive congratulations from the Russian Orthodox Church. Understand that only you and those following you are our anchor of salvation, and that is why prayers will be held in all church es of the Russian Orthodox Church", stated hierarch Zotov.

In the name of the RS president Radovan Karadzic, the RS foreign minister, Aleksa Buha received the "St. Andrew the First called" Decoration.

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