Poroshenko says Soros's International Renaissance Foundation plays a big role in the development of Ukraine / Photo from UNIAN

“Poroshenko presented Soros the award, one of Ukraine’s highest, in Kyiv on November 12, [2015] RFE/RL wrote.

“Your intense activities during recent years have extremely promoted the democratic change that we now have happening in Ukraine,” Poroshenko told Soros.

He said Soros’s International Renaissance Foundation had played

a big role

in the development of Ukraine’s statehood

in the past 25 years [as of 2015].

According to a respective presidential decree, Soros is awarded “for significant personal contribution

to the strengthening of the international authority of the Ukrainian state,

implementation of socio-economic reforms

and many years of fruitful activity.”

Soros, [then] 85, said after receiving the award that it was a great honor for him personally and for the International Renaissance Foundation.”…