At a ceremony on October 19, 2014 the widow of Alexei Navalny, received from the Order of St. Andrew to the Ecumenical Patriarchate of America Athenagoras Human Rights Award.

The award was presented by His Eminence the American Archbishop and Exarch of the Atlantic and Pacific Elpidophorus. The ceremony was attended by over 600 guests, incl. some of the most prominent representatives of the Greek community in the United States. The Consul General of Bulgaria in New York Angel Angelov, for the second year in a row, was given the honor of being seated at the presidium, together with the highest-ranking guests, incl. Archbishop Elpidophorus and Yulia Navalnaya.

The reason for awarding the prestigious prize to Yulia Navalnaya was that, together with her husband, she fought for democracy in Russia and after the tragic fate of Alexei Navalny, she continued with this mission.

The prize is named after the Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople (1948-1972) and is awarded annually to a person or organization whose activity is aimed at the principles of protection of human rights and religious freedom. Previous winners of the award are Joe Biden, Artur Schneier, George Bush (41st president), Jimmy Carter, Mother Teresa, Mikhail Gorbachev, Desmond Tutu, Elie Wiesel, etc.