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The “Russian Guards” is a chest pin badge of Russian Armed Forces servicemen.
The pin badge is handed since 1994 to the commanders and soldiers instead of the Soviet Guards pin badge.
The Guard is the elite privileged part of the troops. The Guards status was given to military formations, units and ships of the USSR Armed Forces for heroism, courage and high military skill performed in action during the Second World War.
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The commemorative pin badge “Participant of Combat Operations” with the image of the State Emblem of Russia is awarded to the civil personnel veterans of Russian Armed Forces for distinguished service performed within official duties and special tasks, courage and valor shown during the service.
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The commemorative pin badge “Participant of Combat Operations” with the image of Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs is awarded to the serviceman of Internal Troops and policemen for distinguished service performed within official duties and special tasks, courage and valor shown during the service.
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The commemorative pin badge is to be presented to the Afghan War veterans and disabled soldiers.
The pin badge is made of a goldish metal. It is an oval laurel-and-oak wreath with a four-pointed cross with flared ends, covered with ruby-red enamel. The cross is imposed over two crossed swords with the handles pointed downwards.
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The commemorative pin badge “Peacekeeper” is awarded to the rank soldiers and officers of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, who participated in international peacekeeping operations as a part of the Russian peacekeeping contingent of the United Nations (UN) or the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) for a period of not less than 60 days, as well as the soldiers who were injured while serving in the peacekeeping forces regardless of the length of stay in them.
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Nicholas II was the last Russian Emperor, the king of Poland and Grand Duke of Finland. His official short title was Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias. As with other Russian Emperors he is commonly known by the monarchical title Tsar. He is also known as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer by the Russian Orthodox Church and is referred to as Saint Nicholas the Martyr.
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The chest pin badge is the insignia of belonging to a special operations unit (Spetsnaz) of Russian Interior Ministry Troops.
The pin badge is made of a goldish metal with enamel in the form of a ruby red Greek cross with flared rounded ends. The cross is imposed over a slightly hollowed round shield with a laurel wreath. In the center of the cross there is a triangular elongated downward small shield with the cut upper corners. In its blue field there is a relief black silhouette of a bat.
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The commemorative pin badge is to be presented to the Afghan War veterans and disabled soldiers.
The pin badge is a four-pointed cross with flared ends, covered with ruby-red enamel. The cross is located amid the diverging beams of the faceted rays and the crossed swords with the handles facing upwards.
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The sleeve patch of the Terek Cossack Host for the full-dress uniform. Approved in 1997.
The Terek Cossacks live along the North Caucasian mountain rivers – Terek, Sunzha, Kura, Malka, Kuma.
Officially the Terek Cossack Host exists since 1577, now it is included in the state register of the Cossack Hosts.
The staff of the Host is located in the city of Vladikavkaz.
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The commemorative pin is given to the servicemen, veterans and civilian personnel of the Russian Federation Armed Forces, who took part in the counter-terrorist operations in the North Caucasus. The pin is devoted to the 15th anniversary of the end of the hostilities in Chechnya.
On the reverse side of the badge there is a screw for fastening it to a military uniform.
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The commemorative pin badge “Participant of Combat Operations” with the image of the Emblem of Russian Army is awarded to the servicemen of the Armed Forces who have exemplary and honestly executed the call of duty in combat operations on providing law and order, fighting against crime and terrorism during hostilities in the territory of the Chechen Republic.
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Dog tag “The Coastguard of the Federal Security Service” is made of stainless steel with enamel.
It is a relief image of a patrol ship walking on the waves and surrounded by helicopters flying in the sky. Over the helicopters there is the waving banner of the Coastguard of the Federal Security Service.
The basis of the flag is the Navy (St. Andrew’s) Russian flag: a waving green cloth with dark blue diagonal cross edged with white stripe.
The inscription on the tag says: “Coastguard of FSB”. “FSB” is an abbreviation which stans for Russian Federal Security Service.