President of the European Parliament awarded the Order of the recognition of the Holodomor.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko awarded the European Parliament President Hans-Gert Poettering Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, the second degree for the recognition of the Holodomor in Ukraine, RIA Novosti reported with reference to UNIAN.
According to presidential decree, the Order was awarded for significant contribution Poettering "in a message to the world community the truth about the genocide of Ukrainian people during Holodomor of 1932-1933."
According to the agency, President Yushchenko thanked the European Parliament, noting that it is a great honor. The awarding ceremony was held at the secretariat of the Order of the President.
The theme of the Famine is painful for Ukraine and Russia. Kiev insists that a massive famine in 1930-ies in the USSR was the genocide of the Ukrainian people. Meanwhile in Moscow claim that the famine had spread not only in Ukraine but also in the Northern Caucasus, Southern Urals, Volga, central black soil region, Kazakhstan and Western Siberia.
In autumn 2008 the European Parliament adopted a resolution which recognized the Holodomor crime against humanity. It was unfortunate the Ukrainian people, and called for the countries of the former Soviet Union to publish archival data on the Holodomor.
However, the resolution is not called the Holodomor as genocide. Previously, the requirement to consider Ukraine famine as genocide the mass rejection of the PACE and UNESCO.