February 26, at the Kazan Kremlin Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev met with Ilyas Daudi, the Hero of Russia, on who a title of the Hero of the Russian Federation for courage and heroism displayed when doing his duty of a soldier in the Republic of Afghanistan was bestowed by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No 1497 of December 27, 2009. Russian President Dmitri Medvedev presented Ilyas Daudi with a medal of the Golden Star in the Saint George Room of the Moscow Kremlin on February 19, 2010.