"To award the Order of Courage to Fomin Maxim Yuryevich (Vladlen Tatarsky) - military correspondent (posthumously) for courage shown in professional duty," the decree reads.
40-year-old Russian war correspondent Vladlen Tatarsky (real name Maxim Fomin) was killed on Sunday in a blast believed to have been caused by an explosive device brought into a St. Petersburg cafe by a female patron.
The Russian Investigative Committee has announced that the murder case is now being treated as a terror attack, which was masterminded in Ukraine.
Furthermore, it was revealed that the suspect in the terror attack, 26-year-old Daria Trepova, is a supporter of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, a non-profit established by Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny. The organization is recognized as extremist and banned in Russia.
Earlier in the day, Russia's National Anti-Terrorism Committee announced that the blast that killed Tatarsky on Sunday was plotted by the Ukrainian special services. The anti-terrorism committee obtained information that Ukraine's special services recruited agents for Tatarsky's killing from among supporters of Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation.
Trepova was detained and questioned on Monday. During the investigation, she confirmed that she gave Tatarsky a statuette as a gift at a St. Petersburg cafe on Sunday, just moments before the blast occurred. The statuette is believed to have been ridden with explosives.