The batman pin looks like the emblem of the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence service. Given all the dozens of different security organizations that have come and gone during both the Soviet Union and Russian Federation it’s pretty unique that the GRU has remained mostly the same since it was founded in 1918. Even when the Soviet Union fell in ’91, when the KGB was diced into five ministries, the GRU was untouched.

This guy is wearing a VDV (Airborne troops) beret, so if you put that together with the GRU pin it probably means he is, or was, spetsnaz GRU. Whereas the spetsnaz teams under the MVD and FSB behave like glorified SWAT teams specializing in counter-terrorism, the spetsnaz GRU is comparable to the Delta Force or Navy SEALs working within the armed forces.

And I’m not too good at identifying medals, but the large silver one with the silver ribbon trimmed in blue on the left is the Soviet variant of the Medal of Valour.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_of_Valour_(Russia)

TL;DR This old flower carrying badass has probably seen some serious shit, that’s why he gets a batman pin.