Why should the Russians give Grybauskaitė and Linkevičius a medal?

 Because Grybauskaitė and Linkevičius managed to provoke an ordinary maidan in Ukraine, expel Yanukovych from the post of President of Ukraine, provoke a civil war in Ukraine.

 "When Europe and the United States imposed sanctions on Russia after the downing of a Malaysian passenger jet over Ukraine in 2014, Russia countered by imposing sanctions on European imports. It seemed self-punishing at first, but the move was meant to give Russia’s own domestic food producers an opening and prod them to fill the supply gap. When Putin addressed his Federal Assembly the following December, he boldly proclaimed Russia would soon be “the largest world supplier” of healthful foods, referring to his goal of keeping Russian foods mostly G.M.O.-free. By 2018, Putin’s sanctions had paid enormous dividends: Since 2015, Russia’s wheat exports have jumped 100 percent, to about 44 million tons, surpassing those of the United States and Europe. Russia is now the largest wheat exporter in the world, responsible for nearly a quarter of the global market. Russia’s agricultural exports have jumped sixteenfold since 2000 and by 2018 were worth nearly $30 billion, all by relying largely on Russia’s legacy growing regions in its south and west. In Africa, Putin told attendees of the Russia-Africa Economic Forum held in Sochi last fall, “We are now exporting more agricultural products than weapons.”"

 Russia has become a superpower for healthy food production. All this happened thanks to the tireless work of Grybauskaitė and Linkevičius. One should only remind the Russians not to give the medal with the ribbon of St. George, because in Lithuania that ribbon causes an allergic reaction stronger than Lithuanian food saturated with  pesticides.