I feel myself an idiot. As many times as I read that text I didn't find anything about turning school into NATO facility. All I found is a facade renovation and windows replacement.
In the late 90s our scientific laboratory won NATO grant and got about $3000 for trips and expendibles. In exchange we mentioned that grant in the acknowledgements section of our scientific articles and that is all. We deal with fundamental physics, that was never secret and up to now our laboratory did not turn into NATO facility. Probably I missed something.
Well one is given to Aksenov, the formal ruler of Crimea after invasion (that one with a party of 3% rating on the last elections in Crimea.)Oh dear. Who's going to get one of these medals then?