Speaking during the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok on Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin couldn't help but take a jibe at US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. When speaking about foreign investments in Russia's Far East regions, and the cases of Japanese and Chinese businessmen receiving Orders of Friendship for their efforts, the highest honor a non-Russian can receive from the Russian state, Putin recalled handing one such order to then-Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson, now US Secretary of State. Putin said that Tillerson has since "fallen in with bad company."