{"id":1087,"date":"2026-02-02T12:29:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T06:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samanweerasinghe.com\/blog\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2026-02-02T12:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T07:00:22","slug":"dr-saman-weerasinghe-was-awarded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samanweerasinghe.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/02\/dr-saman-weerasinghe-was-awarded\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Saman Weerasinghe was awarded the Order of Friendship (Orden Druzhby) by Russian President Vladimir Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Saman Weerasinghe was awarded the Order of Friendship (Orden Druzhby) by Russian President Vladimir Putin at a ceremony held at the Kremlin in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>The award, one of Russia\u2019s highest civilian honours, recognises Dr. Weerasinghe\u2019s long-standing efforts to strengthen diplomatic, cultural, and economic ties between Sri Lanka and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Order of friendship award | Dr. Saman Weerasinghe\" width=\"1220\" height=\"686\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SLplvG9E49I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Saman Weerasinghe was awarded the Order of Friendship (Orden Druzhby) by Russian President Vladimir Putin at a ceremony held at the Kremlin in Moscow. The<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samanweerasinghe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samanweerasinghe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samanweerasinghe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samanweerasinghe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samanweerasinghe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/samanweerasinghe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1090,"href":"https:\/\/samanweerasinghe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions\/1090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samanweerasinghe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samanweerasinghe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samanweerasinghe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samanweerasinghe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}